question about revset usage

[Faheem Mitha]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2014, Mads Kiilerich wrote:

> On 09/30/2014 07:35 PM, Pierre-Yves David wrote:

>> On 09/22/2014 04:49 PM, Mads Kiilerich wrote:

>>> The unsorted order of revsets is not documented and can thus be 
>>> considered undefined and can thus not be wrong. If you want a special 
>>> order, use sort().

>> Actually, before 3.0 all revsets were returned ascending but explicit 
>> descending range 10:5 (and strange stuff like 4+3 and internal _list 
>> predicate).

> Really? Yes, really! That is not how I remember it. Weird.

>> I'm about to restore the ascending behavior for all revset (but 10:5) for 
>> the sake for user sanity.

> If it really has been both undefined and unreliable in the past, please 
> consider making it descending. The most recent changesets are usually 
> the most relevant. I think having ascending as default would mean much 
> longer one-off command lines.

> An example:
> hg log -l4 -r ::.
> vs
> hg log -l4 -r 'sort(::.,-rev)'

I agree with Mads.

     hg log -v

is descending by default, right? I think we should stay with that. I agree 
with Mads, you want the most recent csets at the top.

                                                            Regards, Faheem