On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:52:02AM -0400, James Carlson wrote:
> Nicolas Williams writes:
> > I didn't have an old webrev available, but I snapshot/cloned my ws with
> > ZFS, did an hg update -r <older version> (I hadn't recommitted since the
> > previous webrev), and tried webrev -p (as well as reparenting + webrev).
> > 
> > No dice.  webrev, it seems, diffs against the latest version in the
> > parent wes, not against what's "checked out" (the version I did an hg
> > update -r to).
> 
> It should work as long as the parent is a file path.  If it's "ssh:",
> then you'll have to use '-w' and set HG_PARENT to the <older version>
> value.

I'd used a file: URL.

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