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.