webrev failure?

[David Holmes]

I had thought that webrev only tried to operate on a forest if you asked 
it to - and that that requires the forest extension.

That said the forest extension is not working with recent mercurial 
versions. :(

David

On 12/08/2012 2:04 AM, Martijn Verburg wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Apologies if these are the wrong mailing lists, but I'm assuming that
> the webrev tool falls under this domain somewhat.
>
> In order to get patches into the OpenJDK as cleanly as possible, we're
> looking to utilise webrev (since it's the std and all).
>
> Running "ksh ./make/scripts/webrev.ksh -f" over the latest jdk8/tl
> source (no patches, but a full build was completed using build-infra)
> and I got a host of errors:
>
> --------
>
>     SCM detected: mercurial
> hg: unknown command 'foutgoing'
> abort: cannot follow file not in parent revision: "Mercurial"
> abort: cannot follow file not in parent revision: "basic"
> abort: cannot follow file not in parent revision: "add"
> abort: cannot follow file not in parent revision: "annotate"
> ..
> ..
>
> --------
>
> A separate, yet related set of errors are at
> http://pastebin.com/q0tF1A4m for sake of brevity in this mail.
>
> I assume I'm running this tool incorrectly, I expected a result of
> something like "You've changed nothing, nothing to se here move along
> please" :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Martijn