Re: Re: [tools-tinderbox] Any way to query mercurial to "show me all changes on $tree since $date" without creating a local clone?

Hi Heiner, *,

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Jens-Heiner
Rechtien<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> this might not the smartest way to do it but one possible way would be:
>
> 1) setup a tree less clone of the master repository, which is kept
> current via a cron job (once a day or so)
>
> $ hg clone -U http://hg.services.openoffice.org/hg/DEV300 <clean>
>
> 2) cd <clean>
>
> 3) hg incoming --template '{date|shortdate}\n'
> http://hg.services.openoffice.org/hg/cws/<cws> | tail -n 1
>
> gives you the date of the last changeset added to the cws which is not
> in the master (yet).
>
> You might want to use the mercurial "raw internal" date for easier
> comparison, you can do so by exchanging 3) to
>
> 3) hg incoming --template '{date}\n'
> http://hg.services.openoffice.org/hg/cws/<cws> | tail -n 1
>
> this gives you something like
>
> 1251109813.00
>
> which is nicely monotone increasing with time :-)

That is slightly better than using identify (that only gives the
revision), but still somewhat poor.

I'd really like to have the commit-message and the affected files
along with the date, to be able to create an overview just like with
svn:
in the status page:
http://tinderbox.go-oo.org/cmcfixes62/status.html
individual commits listed in the time-column all along with the build stati
and more details here (click a date on the status page and you'll jump
to the corresponding place in the vc-data page)
http://tinderbox.go-oo.org/cmcfixes62/all_vc.html

What the svn page is lacking, is links to the actual diffs (but
currently there's no webserver that can provide specific revisions of
a file/show a diff between two given revisions for OOo's tree)

> If you detect a "dirty" tree, just do a
>
> hg clone -U <clean> <working>
> cd <working>
> hg pull http://hg.services.openoffice.org/hg/cws/<cws>
> [two heads now, tip is the last changeset of the CWS]
> hg update -r tip

Tinderbox doesn't build itself, so that's not needed, that's the job
of the buildslaves :-)

The pushlog (unfortunately not on OOo's version :-(() is very close to
what I want. (if it had the comments along with the filelist in a
single feed, that would be perfect)

ciao
Christian