revset: add "reversed" as a synonym for "reverse"

[Daniel Colascione (SEATTLE)]

On 10/13/2015 08:22 AM, Augie Fackler wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 02:12:55PM -0700, Daniel Colascione (SEATTLE) wrote:
>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User Daniel Colascione <dancol at fb.com>
>> # Date 1444684285 25200
>> #      Mon Oct 12 14:11:25 2015 -0700
>> # Node ID 348e3483614878ac1049c836f4f3bb36127cae27
>> # Parent  a3fcc8e3136bd19012d28b863d6bf4429948c573
>> revset: add "reversed" as synonym for "reverse"
> 
> I'm hesitant to do this, what's the benefit?
> 
> I get that it matches Python, but I'm not sure that merits the
> duplicated name. Besides, hg tells you what you meant:
> 
> augie$ hg log -r 'reversed(::@)'
> hg: parse error: unknown identifier: reversed
> (did you mean one of removes, reverse?)

I write a lot of Python. On the day I wrote this patch, I found myself
typing "reversed" instead of "reverse" three times in a single day. Of
course fixing the problem is trivial, but so is the patch, which can
reduce annoyance without costing anything.

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