[issue745] allow number:hash notation to be used to specify a changeset

[Charles Samuels]

New submission from Charles Samuels <charles at vmware.com>:

When you need to specify a revision, it's handy to copy and paste it from the 
console. However, many terminal emulators will see ":" as part of a word, and 
thus select both the change number and the hash as a single word, which means I 
left with typing in the number or selecting just the digits.

If I could type `hg merge -r 555:012345abcdef` that means that I could just 
double click on "hg heads"'s output and then paste it with the 
middle-mouse-button. fast, easy, and less error prone!

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messages: 4012
nosy: charles
priority: wish
status: unread
title: allow number:hash notation to be used to specify a changeset

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