view mercurial/help/common.txt @ 30801:67ee7874e53b

revset: factor out getinteger() helper

We have 4 revset functions that take integer arguments, and they handle
their arguments in slightly different ways. This patch unifies them:

 - getstring() in place of getsymbol(), which is more consistent with the
   handling of integer revisions (both 1 and '1' are valid)
 - say "expects" instead of "requires" for type errors

We don't need to catch TypeError since getstring() must return a string.

.. Common link and substitution definitions.

.. |hg(1)| replace:: **hg**\ (1)
.. _hg(1): hg.1.html
.. |hgrc(5)| replace:: **hgrc**\ (5)
.. _hgrc(5): hgrc.5.html
.. |hgignore(5)| replace:: **hgignore**\ (5)
.. _hgignore(5): hgignore.5.html