webrev.ksh inserts full commit history of a file

[Attila Szegedi]

I knew about -r and have used it in the past; unfortunately it didn’t help. Even doing “webrev.ksh -N -r qparent” gives me the wrong results (still a full commit history).

Attila.

> On Sep 14, 2015, at 9:24 AM, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Attila,
> 
> you can use '-r rev' to compare against a specific revision. I use it
> together with Mercurial Queues if I have changes from my queue pushed
> but only want a webrev of the top-most change. In that case I do
> "webrev.ksh -r qbase".
> 
> Also you can use '-N' to prevent webrev.ksh doing 'hg outgoing' and
> instead producing a webrev of local changes only (i.e. 'hg status').
> 
> Regards,
> Volker
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Attila Szegedi
> <attila.szegedi at oracle.com> wrote:
>> Recently I noticed webrev.ksh started including the full commit history of files into the generated webrevs. E.g. see http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~attila/8135262/webrev.jdk9/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~attila/8135262/webrev.jdk9/>
>> 
>> I have seen some other people recently posting webrevs suffering from the same problem, e.g. <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aw/8134873/webrev.01/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aw/8134873/webrev.01/>>
>> 
>> One thing I did recently was reinstall all my MacPorts as part of upgrading them for OS X 10.10, so my ports-provided Mercurial now identifies itself as “3.4.99” in port list and as “3.5-rc+12-a74e9806d17d” with “hg —version”. Not sure if that matters. If anybody has an insight into it, please let me know.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>>  Attila.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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