view mercurial/help/multirevs.txt @ 16362:16b75661828e stable

mdiff: fix diff header generation for files with spaces (issue3357)

diff ---/+++ should end filenames with a TAB when they contain spaces. Current
code failed to do so when only the +++ file had spaces. This only happened with
git renames from a name without space to one with space.

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.