convert: introduce hg.revs to replace hg.startrev and --rev with a revset

The existing knobs for controlling which revisions to convert were often
insufficient. Revsets is a shiny hammer that provides a better solution.

Revsets has been introduced in --rev handling in a lot of other places while
being more or less backwards compatible. Doing the same here would be a much
more elegant ... but that would unfortunately not work in this case.  "--rev 7"
used to mean revision 0 to 7 - it would be an unacceptable change if it
suddenly just meant revision 7.

Instead we introduce a new configuration setting. It will only work for
Mercurial repositories so adding a new commandline option for it would not be a
nice solution.

There is no way to use the fancy deprecation markup for configuration settings
so we just remove the documentation of hg.startrev.

hgext/convert/__init__.py

@@ -155,8 +155,7 b' def convert(ui, src, dest=None, revmapfi'
         (forces target IDs to change). It takes a boolean argument and
         defaults to False.
 
-    :convert.hg.startrev: convert start revision and its descendants.
-        It takes a hg revision identifier and defaults to 0.
+    :convert.hg.revs: revset specifying the source revisions to convert.
 
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hgext/convert/hg.py

@@ -21,7 +21,7 b''
 import os, time, cStringIO
 from mercurial.i18n import _
 from mercurial.node import bin, hex, nullid
-from mercurial import hg, util, context, bookmarks, error
+from mercurial import hg, util, context, bookmarks, error, scmutil
 
 from common import NoRepo, commit, converter_source, converter_sink
 
@@ -252,6 +252,8 b' class mercurial_source(converter_source)'
         self.convertfp = None
         # Restrict converted revisions to startrev descendants
         startnode = ui.config('convert', 'hg.startrev')
+        hgrevs = ui.config('convert', 'hg.revs')
+        if hgrevs is None:
         if startnode is not None:
             try:
                 startnode = self.repo.lookup(startnode)
@@ -269,6 +271,18 b' class mercurial_source(converter_source)'
             self._heads = [self.repo[rev].node()]
         else:
             self._heads = self.repo.heads()
+        else:
+            if rev or startnode is not None:
+                raise util.Abort(_('hg.revs cannot be combined with '
+                                   'hg.startrev or --rev'))
+            nodes = set()
+            parents = set()
+            for r in scmutil.revrange(self.repo, [hgrevs]):
+                ctx = self.repo[r]
+                nodes.add(ctx.node())
+                parents.update(p.node() for p in ctx.parents())
+            self.keep = nodes.__contains__
+            self._heads = nodes - parents
 
     def changectx(self, rev):
         if self.lastrev != rev:

tests/test-convert-hg-startrev.t

@@ -183,3 +183,23 b' Convert from merge'
   b
   $ hg -q verify
   $ cd ..
+
+Convert from revset in convert.hg.revs
+
+  $ hg convert --config convert.hg.revs='3:4+0' source revsetrepo
+  initializing destination revsetrepo repository
+  scanning source...
+  sorting...
+  converting...
+  2 0: add a b f
+  1 3: change a
+  0 4: merge 2 and 3
+
+  $ glog revsetrepo
+  o  2 "4: merge 2 and 3" files: b c d e f
+  |
+  o  1 "3: change a" files: a
+  |
+  o  0 "0: add a b f" files: a b f
+  
+  $ cd ..

tests/test-convert.t

@@ -135,9 +135,8 b''
                     store original revision ID in changeset (forces target IDs
                     to change). It takes a boolean argument and defaults to
                     False.
-      convert.hg.startrev
-                    convert start revision and its descendants. It takes a hg
-                    revision identifier and defaults to 0.
+      convert.hg.revs
+                    revset specifying the source revisions to convert.
   
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