view mercurial/help/multirevs.txt @ 28499:8b90367c4cf3

tests: make test-verify-repo-operations.py not run by default

test-verify-repo-operations.py currently starts way too late and
extends the running time with -j50 on my machine from around 3:48 min
to 6:30 min. We could of course make it run earlier, but the test case
seems unlikely to find bugs not covered by other tests, so let's mark
it "slow" instead. I think this type of test is better suited to
running separately in a long-running job.

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.