diff --git a/mercurial/localrepo.py b/mercurial/localrepo.py
--- a/mercurial/localrepo.py
+++ b/mercurial/localrepo.py
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ class localrepository(object):
         '''Return a list of revisions matching the given revset'''
         expr = revset.formatspec(expr, *args)
         m = revset.match(None, expr)
-        return revset.baseset([r for r in m(self, revset.baseset(self))])
+        return m(self, revset.spanset(self))
 
     def set(self, expr, *args):
         '''