view mercurial/help/multirevs.txt @ 16504:e3c7ca15cde2 stable

doc: add note about pattern rooted/unrooted cases to "hgignore" and "patterns"

each help topics describe that patterns are "not rooted" and "rooted"
in themselves, but not describe about each other.

so, this may causes misunderstanding about "rooted"-ness of patterns.

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.