D3308: scmutil: document that isrevsymbol() raises on ambiguous node prefix

[martinvonz (Martin von Zweigbergk)]

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REPOSITORY
  rHG Mercurial

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3308

AFFECTED FILES
  mercurial/scmutil.py

CHANGE DETAILS

diff --git a/mercurial/scmutil.py b/mercurial/scmutil.py
--- a/mercurial/scmutil.py
+++ b/mercurial/scmutil.py
@@ -444,6 +444,11 @@
     return node
 
 def isrevsymbol(repo, symbol):
+    """Checks if a symbol exists in the repo.
+
+       See revsymbol() for details. Raises error.LookupError if the symbol is an
+       an ambiguous nodeid prefix.
+    """
     try:
         revsymbol(repo, symbol)
         return True



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