view mercurial/help/multirevs.txt @ 28477:194a6cd873cd

chg: silently inherit server exit code

If chgserver aborts during startup, for example, error.ParseError when parsing
a config file, chg client probably just wants to exit with a same exit code
without printing other unrelated text. This patch changes the text "cmdserver
exited with status" from abortmsg to debugmsg and exits with a same exit code.

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.