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heads: mention STARTREV in synopsis and help for --rev

Before this change, "hg help heads" said

  hg heads [-ac] [-r REV] [REV]...

      [...]
      If STARTREV is specified, only those heads that are descendants
      of STARTREV will be displayed.
      [...]

   -r --rev REV       show only heads which are descendants of REV
   [...]

which made little sense since there are two things called REV in the
synopsis and nothing called STARTREV.

A little digging reveals that the "[-r REV]" part of the synopsis was
introduced in 8e503fa54d2d, changed to "[-r STARTREV]" in
2bcef677a6c3, and then changed back to "[-r REV]" in 4b02fc71bbba.

The last change seems to be based on a patch[1] on our mailinglist
that actually *inserted* STARTREV again in the help for the command
line option itself. For some reason, the patch was changed to remove
STARTREV from the synopsis.

This change finally makes the help consistent by putting STARTREV back
into the help in all places where it is needed:

  hg heads [-ac] [-r STARTREV] [REV]...

      [...]
      If STARTREV is specified, only those heads that are descendants
      of STARTREV will be displayed.
      [...]

   -r --rev STARTREV  show only heads which are descendants of STARTREV
   [...]

This was not possible until 40c06bbf58be, which introduced the
possibility of naming the meta variables for each option.

[1]: http://mercurial.markmail.org/message/qgc55gd4fam4ogvz

[This file is here for historical purposes, all recent contributors
should appear in the changelog directly]

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea at suse.de>
Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>
Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack at libero.it>
Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix at mulix.org>
Mikael Berthe <mikael at lilotux.net>
Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com>
Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com>
Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>
Jake Edge <jake at edge2.net>
Michael Fetterman <michael.fetterman at intel.com>
Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr>
Eric Hopper <hopper at omnifarious.org>
Alecs King <alecsk at gmail.com>
Volker Kleinfeld <Volker.Kleinfeld at gmx.de>
Vadim Lebedev <vadim at mbdsys.com>
Christopher Li <hg at chrisli.org>
Chris Mason <mason at suse.com>
Colin McMillen <mcmillen at cs.cmu.edu>
Wojciech Milkowski <wmilkowski at interia.pl>
Chad Netzer <chad.netzer at gmail.com>
Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>
Vicent Seguí Pascual <vseguip at gmail.com>
Sean Perry <shaleh at speakeasy.net>
Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh at gmail.com>
Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr>
Alexander Schremmer <alex at alexanderweb.de>
Arun Sharma <arun at sharma-home.net>
Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jeffpc at optonline.net>
Kevin Smith <yarcs at qualitycode.com>
TK Soh <teekaysoh at yahoo.com>
Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm at gorzow.mm.pl>
Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149.net>
K Thananchayan <thananck at yahoo.com>
Andrew Thompson <andrewkt at aktzero.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>
Rafael Villar Burke <pachi at mmn-arquitectos.com>
Tristan Wibberley <tristan at wibberley.org>
Mark Williamson <mark.williamson at cl.cam.ac.uk>