diff -r e825dfea3823 -r fe7fbfdb066d mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Wed Sep 14 22:32:12 2005 -0700
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Thu Sep 15 00:04:29 2005 -0700
@@ -163,9 +163,9 @@
             num = int(val)
             if str(num) != val:
                 raise ValueError
-            if num < 0:
-                num += revcount
-            if not (0 <= num < revcount):
+            if num < 0: num += revcount
+            if num < 0: num = 0
+            elif num >= revcount:
                 raise ValueError
         except ValueError:
             try: