log: remove dead code to follow descendants if ascending revisions specified It's been disabled since 8b4b9ee6001a "log: make -fr show complete history from the given revs" 2015-02-06, and we've got no bug report regarding this exact behavior. For details what the heck "followdescendants" is, please see the issue comment: https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4959#c72 "'rev(%d)' % startrev" can be replaced with '.' since revs are 'reversed(:.)'.