# HG changeset patch
# User Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org>
# Date 2017-06-10 09:35:11
# Node ID b36ec65ea5837aa7e4bbbc4ac8998075dfc178e1
# Parent  573b792872c1bd751e08531678ade5e3e501a236

revset: reject negative number to select first/last n members

Negative 'lim' doesn't make sense here, and it makes things complicated
when using list[:lim].

diff --git a/mercurial/revset.py b/mercurial/revset.py
--- a/mercurial/revset.py
+++ b/mercurial/revset.py
@@ -1162,6 +1162,8 @@ def limit(repo, subset, x):
         raise error.ParseError(_("limit requires one to three arguments"))
     # i18n: "limit" is a keyword
     lim = getinteger(args.get('n'), _("limit expects a number"), default=1)
+    if lim < 0:
+        raise error.ParseError(_("negative number to select"))
     # i18n: "limit" is a keyword
     ofs = getinteger(args.get('offset'), _("limit expects a number"), default=0)
     if ofs < 0:
@@ -1192,6 +1194,8 @@ def last(repo, subset, x):
     if len(l) == 2:
         # i18n: "last" is a keyword
         lim = getinteger(l[1], _("last expects a number"))
+    if lim < 0:
+        raise error.ParseError(_("negative number to select"))
     os = getset(repo, fullreposet(repo), l[0])
     os.reverse()
     result = []
diff --git a/tests/test-revset.t b/tests/test-revset.t
--- a/tests/test-revset.t
+++ b/tests/test-revset.t
@@ -1001,7 +1001,14 @@ Test first (=limit) and last
   $ log 'limit(all(), 1, -1)'
   hg: parse error: negative offset
   [255]
-
+  $ log 'limit(all(), -1)'
+  hg: parse error: negative number to select
+  [255]
+  $ log 'limit(all(), 0)'
+
+  $ log 'last(all(), -1)'
+  hg: parse error: negative number to select
+  [255]
   $ log 'last(all(), 0)'
   $ log 'last(all(), 1)'
   9