D3715: namespaces: allow namespaces whose symbols resolve to many nodes (API)

[yuja (Yuya Nishihara)]

yuja added a comment.


  >   > This patch strikes me as a Seems-Like-A-Good-Idea-But-Could-Blowup type
  >   >  of thing. So, what this patch does is conditionally change the behavior
  >   >  of 'log -r' based on the type of object passed in.
  >   
  >   
  >   No, it just allows namespaces to do that. As I said (or tried to say) in the commit message, `hg log -r stable` is protected by BC, so we can't change it. There should be no functional change from this patch.
  
  How about adding syntax to resolve multinode namespace symbols?
  `stable~`, for example, will be resolved to all revisions in the stable
  branch.
  
  Implementation wise, we can get rid of the `revsymbol()` hack, and extra
  `repo[n]` lookup won't be needed. A possible drawback (other than the '~'
  suffix itself) is we'll soon run out of shell-safe symbols.

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REVISION DETAIL
  https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3715

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