--- a/mercurial/revset.py	Thu Oct 02 23:38:30 2014 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/revset.py	Fri Oct 03 00:12:22 2014 -0500
@@ -2577,6 +2577,9 @@
     def __len__(self):
         return len(self._list)
 
+    def __nonzero__(self):
+        return bool(self._r1 or self._r2)
+
     @util.propertycache
     def _list(self):
         if not self._genlist: