How to create a webrev from the top level directory

[Kelly O'Hair]

You need the Mercurial forest extension working, and I usually use this:

    webrev -f -N -o somedir

The -N says I only want a webrev of the edited working set files.

Yeah I know, the forest extension is a pain. Sorry.

-kto

On Dec 20, 2011, at 7:30 AM, Pete Brunet wrote:

> I've been asked to create a webrev.  According to
> http://openjdk.java.net/guide/webrevHelp.html
> from the toplevel directory (macosx-port) I should execute
> ksh ./make/scripts/webrev.ksh -f
> but that produced a lot of error messages so I did
> cd jdk
> ksh ../make/scripts/webrev.ksh
> and that created my webrev
> 
> What is the proper command to get it to work from the parent directory?
> 
> Pete