diff -r 65ccc733d58e -r cd43195ef876 mercurial/cmdutil.py
--- a/mercurial/cmdutil.py	Tue Oct 07 00:04:16 2014 -0700
+++ b/mercurial/cmdutil.py	Tue Oct 07 00:20:00 2014 -0700
@@ -1856,12 +1856,12 @@
         revs = matcher(repo, revs)
         revs.sort(reverse=True)
     if limit is not None:
-        limitedrevs = revset.baseset()
+        limitedrevs = []
         for idx, rev in enumerate(revs):
             if idx >= limit:
                 break
             limitedrevs.append(rev)
-        revs = limitedrevs
+        revs = revset.baseset(limitedrevs)
 
     return revs, expr, filematcher