442079 - Add verbose option (-v) to hg pull buildstep

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

Add verbose option (-v) to hg pull buildstep.

That way we can see which files changed since the last pull.

bsmedberg pointed out that showing the changeset id alone is sufficient to figure this out, so maybe it's not worth doing. Filing anyway to see what other folks think.

Comment 1

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

I'm going to guess that this was meant to be filed in Release Engineering. Webtools::Tinderbox is for the front-end Tinderbox Server. (eg, not the machines that actually build Firefox)

Comment 2

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

Indeed. Sorry about that.

Comment 3

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

This might be as much confusing as helpful, since a slave may not have built recently and so pulls changes from several pushes (rather than the last build on the tinderbox waterfall). What use case were you thinking of Ben T. ? 

Comment 4

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

I think that sounds fine - I just came to rely on the list of updated files that CVS update printed in the log to make sure that a (my) change was picked up. I can retrain myself to use the changeset id if no one else misses this.

Comment 5

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

WONTFIX based on comment#4