# HG changeset patch
# User Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas@intevation.de>
# Date 1125062804 -7200
# Node ID ea878688221e739b94d13847a9a12a36ab31a15f
# Parent  6e94c0365d98be26563e30abbf27b50d655b0403
Shortened commands.revrange() a little bit, added docstring.


diff -r 6e94c0365d98 -r ea878688221e mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Fri Aug 26 15:19:18 2005 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Fri Aug 26 15:26:44 2005 +0200
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@
 revrangesep = ':'
 
 def revrange(ui, repo, revs, revlog=None):
+    """Yield revision as strings from a list of revision specifications."""
     if revlog is None:
         revlog = repo.changelog
     revcount = revlog.count()
@@ -153,13 +154,8 @@
             start, end = spec.split(revrangesep, 1)
             start = fix(start, 0)
             end = fix(end, revcount - 1)
-            if end > start:
-                end += 1
-                step = 1
-            else:
-                end -= 1
-                step = -1
-            for rev in xrange(start, end, step):
+            step = start > end and -1 or 1
+            for rev in xrange(start, end+step, step):
                 yield str(rev)
         else:
             yield str(fix(spec, None))