Confusing Mercurial history - was: Re: Hotspot segfaulting on Linux SPARC

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Mon, 2018-04-16 at 17:07 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am trying to bisect the segefault I am seeing on linux-sparc.
> 
> For this, I am checking out revision 46931 which should be a good one.
> 
> However, trying to build this revision shows that the checked out version
> is missing the patches from revision 46667 and 46668, so I have to make
> those changes manually.
> 
> Is there any explanation why a checkout from the newer revision 46931
> is missing the changes from the revisions 46667 and 46668? I have
> the impression I am using Mercurial wrong :(.

Those numbers seem to be local revision numbers. These are not unique
across different checkouts. Have you tried using sha's? How to find a
sha for a specific bug?

$ hg log -k <bug>

HTH,
Severin