mercurial/scmutil.py

--- a/mercurial/scmutil.py	Sun Apr 29 10:07:40 2018 -0700
+++ b/mercurial/scmutil.py	Mon Apr 16 23:49:38 2018 -0700
@@ -490,6 +490,12 @@
 
     def disambiguate(prefix):
         """Disambiguate against revnums."""
+        if repo.ui.configbool('experimental', 'revisions.prefixhexnode'):
+            if mayberevnum(repo, prefix):
+                return 'x' + prefix
+            else:
+                return prefix
+
         hexnode = hex(node)
         for length in range(len(prefix), len(hexnode) + 1):
             prefix = hexnode[:length]