RFE for webrev: the meaning of -r

[Max (Weijun) Wang]

On Feb 24, 2009, at 12:51 PM, John Rose wrote:

> On Feb 23, 2009, at 7:10 PM, Max (Weijun) Wang wrote:
>
>> Currently, 'webrev -N -r n' creates a diff from rev n to the  
>> working directory. Is this really useful? How about output a diff  
>> for the changeset rev=n itself?
>
> It's useful if people don't want to commit their changes before  
> reviewing.

'-N' itself is useful, but I cannot see what the benefit '-N -r n' is.  
Wrapping several changes into a single webrev?

>  (Actually, I use mq to manage my changes, and it does pseudo- 
> commits.)

Me too. I qgoto a patch and call 'webrev -N -r -2' to create a webrev  
now.

>
>
>> Working on multiple bugs at the moment, I would be very glad to  
>> call 'webrev -N -r n' with n=-1,-2,-3... to output a series of  
>> webrevs for each changeset I just made.
>
> The mercurial way to say this sort of thing is 123:124, where the  
> numbers name two revisions.

This looks better.

Thanks
Max

>  Perhaps that can be integrated into webrev, although it would touch  
> a couple dozen lines.
>
> Best,
> -- John