Quoth Gavin Maltby on Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 03:25:57PM +1000:
> Like many projects, our gate parents off of an ON snapshot. In the
> Teamware age we parented off on /net/onnv.sfbay/export/snapshot/onnv_xx.
> Now with Hg we can utter things like 'hg clone -r onnv_95 ....'
> which is grand but doesn't seem to be quite the same as having
> a standalone snapshot of that revision of the gate. One thing
> that appears to be missing is that webrev, actually hg-active which
> it employs to get a file list, will compare your child gate
> against the *tip* of the onnv clone and not against the
> revision tagged onnv_95, or whatever - this generates zillions
> more files than are really in your gate, and even for those
> that are compares against the clone tip of that file.
Using "hg log -m", set $rev to the revision you want to compare against.
Then run
hg st --rev $rev -mard -n | HG_PARENT=$rev webrev -
David
