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[Kevin Smith]

Thomas Arendsen Hein wrote:
> Giving longer lists is still possible with more than two -r
> arguments, e.g. displaying only tip and 0.6 with:
> 
> hg log -r tip -r tip -r 0.6
>        \___range___/

Icky! I really don't like having a series of -r parameters where 
alternate ones have different meanings. Pasting and editing a previous 
command that worked could get very confusing. Also, there is ambiguity 
because I would expect this to give me three independent logs, one for 
each of the mentioned revisions:
   hg log -r 0.1 -r 0.2 -r 0.3

Perhaps we could use some delimeter so you have something more like:
   hg log -r tip:0.6 -r 0.4 -r 0.3:0.2

Or I would be happy with this:
   hg log --from tip --to 0.6 -r 0.4 --from 0.3 --to 0.2

Or maybe
   hg log -r tip 0.6
for a single range, and if you want more than one range, pass a text 
file that has them listed:
   hg log -f revision-ranges.txt

Or maybe it's just not worth allowing multiple ranges on one command line?

Kevin