[PATCH 1 of 2 STABLE V2] revsets: remove incorrect doc line

Sean Farley sean at farley.io
Thu Apr 28 18:41:54 EDT 2016


Yuya Nishihara <yuya at tcha.org> writes:

> On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 20:34:43 -0400, timeless wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Sean Farley <sean at farley.io> wrote:
>> > # HG changeset patch
>> > # User Sean Farley <sean at farley.io>
>> > # Date 1461790929 25200
>> > #      Wed Apr 27 14:02:09 2016 -0700
>> > # Branch stable
>> > # Node ID c94d5bcf19875b7b1b04ade9ad2bfb04f80ef1ae
>> > # Parent  cfcd065cae29673c180892ae692e986661a4adc6
>> > # EXP-Topic doc-only-revset
>> > revsets: remove incorrect doc line
>> >
>> > diff --git a/mercurial/help/revsets.txt b/mercurial/help/revsets.txt
>> > --- a/mercurial/help/revsets.txt
>> > +++ b/mercurial/help/revsets.txt
>> > @@ -48,12 +48,10 @@ These are the supported infix operators:
>> >    for n == 2, the second parent of changeset in x.
>> >
>> >  ``x~n``
>> >    The nth first ancestor of x; ``x~0`` is x; ``x~3`` is ``x^^^``.
>> >
>> > -There is a single postfix operator:
>> > -
>> >  ``x^``
>> >    Equivalent to ``x^1``, the first parent of each changeset in x.
>
>> I don't understand. I think it's correct.
>> It's also parallel to:
>>
>> There is a single prefix operator:
>
> Perhaps Sean would mean "x%" is also a postfix (suffix) operator. But I
> agree with timeless in that removing this sentence is inconsistent.

It was from IRC:

<mpm> "There is a single postfix operator:" <- has never been true.


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