diff -r c517b97c7609 -r b9537ee87961 mercurial/namespaces.py
--- a/mercurial/namespaces.py	Tue Oct 21 19:49:23 2014 -0700
+++ b/mercurial/namespaces.py	Mon Dec 15 14:46:04 2014 -0800
@@ -140,3 +140,10 @@
         """method that returns a (sorted) list of names in a namespace that
         match a given node"""
         return sorted(self.nodemap(repo, node))
+
+    def nodes(self, repo, name):
+        """method that returns a list of nodes in a namespace that
+        match a given name.
+
+        """
+        return sorted(self.namemap(repo, name))