RFE for webrev: the meaning of -r

[Kelly O'Hair]

And don't forget that button that submits the patch to a build system that
verifies the patch works on all platforms and also runs all smoke tests.... ;^)

Oh dear, I think I'm supposed to do that... nevermind.... ;^>
Now if I can just figure out how my Sunbeam toaster does it....

-kto

Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> It would be nice to decouple as much as possible the back end of how to 
> publish the webrev.
> For example, perhaps the tool could collect basic information such as 
> the bug ID, a description
> of the change, and the location of the webrev directory, and hand this 
> info off to a back-end
> script provided by the user.  That way we could easily use scripts to 
> write files out to the
> code review server, to the sa.sfbay server, or any other systems that 
> might come along in
> future.
> 
> -- Jon
> 
> Jean-Christophe Collet wrote:
>> Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>>> Neat looking tool.
>>>
>>> Would it be too much of  a stretch to have the tool optionally 
>>> publish the webrev to a remote location
>>> such as the new code review server?
>>>
>>
>> Good point. I'll try to do that as soon as I get some time
>>
>>> -- Jon
>>>
>>> On Feb 24, 2009, at 6:57 AM, Jean-Christophe Collet wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'll see what I can do
>>>> In the meantime may I suggest you give jHg a try 
>>>> (http://sunweb.swiss/~jccollet/jHg/ )
>>>> It's a java tool I wrote that is much more flexible than the webrev 
>>>> script.
>>>> I'm actually considering building a NetBeans module based on it.
>>>>
>>>> John Rose wrote:
>>>>> On Feb 23, 2009, at 8:56 PM, Max (Weijun) Wang wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Me too. I qgoto a patch and call 'webrev -N -r -2' to create a 
>>>>>> webrev now.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, that's about what I do, except I have it merge up all my 
>>>>> queued changes sometimes.
>>>>>
>>>>> I sometimes have used a wrapper script which finds base revision of 
>>>>> the queue like this:
>>>>>
>>>>>> diffbase=$(hg log --rev qparent --template '{rev}')
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> webrev -m -N -i $info -o $temp -r $diffbase -p "$parent" ...
>>>>>
>>>>> Saying "webrev -N -r qbase:qtip" could make sense...
>>>>>
>>>>> -- John
>>>>
>>>
>>
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