help/multirevs.txt
author Greg Ward <greg@gerg.ca>
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:23:11 -0500
branchstable
changeset 9899 be574a37a8ae
parent 9540 cad36e496640
permissions -rw-r--r--
run-tests: give each child its own tmp dir (issue1911) Fixes bug introduced by f8b4df4b033d (issue1911: --tmpdir plus parallel mode = fail), and also fixes the long-standing quirk that parallel mode created multiple /tmp/hgtests.XXXXXX directories. Now there is only one /tmp/hgtests.XXXXXX, with child0, child1, etc. under it.

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.