diff hgext/convert/__init__.py @ 19891:e271970b9821

convert: introduce hg.revs to replace hg.startrev and --rev with a revset

The existing knobs for controlling which revisions to convert were often
insufficient. Revsets is a shiny hammer that provides a better solution.

Revsets has been introduced in --rev handling in a lot of other places while
being more or less backwards compatible. Doing the same here would be a much
more elegant ... but that would unfortunately not work in this case.  "--rev 7"
used to mean revision 0 to 7 - it would be an unacceptable change if it
suddenly just meant revision 7.

Instead we introduce a new configuration setting. It will only work for
Mercurial repositories so adding a new commandline option for it would not be a
nice solution.

There is no way to use the fancy deprecation markup for configuration settings
so we just remove the documentation of hg.startrev.

--- a/hgext/convert/__init__.py	Thu Oct 03 18:01:21 2013 +0200
+++ b/hgext/convert/__init__.py	Sat Jul 20 00:43:08 2013 +0200
@@ -155,8 +155,7 @@
         (forces target IDs to change). It takes a boolean argument and
         defaults to False.
 
-    :convert.hg.startrev: convert start revision and its descendants.
-        It takes a hg revision identifier and defaults to 0.
+    :convert.hg.revs: revset specifying the source revisions to convert.
 
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