webrev failure?

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi David,

Aha! :-).  Any ideas on how far I need to downgrade the version of hg?
(I'm 2.3 at the moment).

Cheers,
Martijn

On 12 August 2012 12:29, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
> 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