mercurial/help/multirevs.txt
author Mads Kiilerich <mads@kiilerich.com>
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 03:14:53 +0100
changeset 15439 01611e7c36ff
parent 9999 f91e5630ce7e
permissions -rw-r--r--
dispatch: exit with 8-bit exit code The exit code returned from a program to the shell is unsigned 8-bit, but Mercurial would sometimes try to exit with negative numbers or None. sys.exit on Unix will convert that to 8-bit exit codes, but on Windows negative values showed up as 0. The exit code is now explicitly converted to unsigned 8-bit.

When Mercurial accepts more than one revision, they may be specified
individually, or provided as a topologically continuous range,
separated by the ":" character.

The syntax of range notation is [BEGIN]:[END], where BEGIN and END are
revision identifiers. Both BEGIN and END are optional. If BEGIN is not
specified, it defaults to revision number 0. If END is not specified,
it defaults to the tip. The range ":" thus means "all revisions".

If BEGIN is greater than END, revisions are treated in reverse order.

A range acts as a closed interval. This means that a range of 3:5
gives 3, 4 and 5. Similarly, a range of 9:6 gives 9, 8, 7, and 6.