mercurial/help/multirevs.txt
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@ens-lyon.org>
Fri, 01 Feb 2013 02:01:11 +0100
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rebase: mention --rev in the help This changeset adds a small mention of it in the help to prevent confusion. This small addition references online help that is easier to update and improve at release time. Following Wagner Bruna's advice, this is added in a plain new paragraph to not invalidate current translation this close to the release.

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.