topic: support --rev argument and properly process then as user input
Revisions inputed by the users should be processed using `scmutil.revrange`.
This will take alias into account and allow extensions to monitor the user
inputs.
As a side effect, the '_changetopics' function takes revisions as argument.
make the API clearer.
#require test-repo
$ checkflake8() {
> if ! (which flake8 > /dev/null); then
> echo skipped: missing tool: flake8;
> exit 80;
> fi;
> };
$ checkflake8
Copied from Mercurial core (60ee2593a270)
$ cd "`dirname "$TESTDIR"`"
run flake8 if it exists; if it doesn't, then just skip
$ hg files -0 'set:(**.py or grep("^#!.*python")) - removed()' 2>/dev/null \
> | xargs -0 flake8