448709 - query directories in pushlog

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Developer Services :: Mercurial: hg.mozilla.org, defect)

Description

[Robert Kaiser]

Localizers, theme designers and probably other want to see changes just in certain directories, it would be good if we could query pushlog for those.

Comment 1

[Alex Ihrig [:Thunderbird_Mail_DE]]

An example query, I'm using for l10n work:

http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?treeid=default&module=all&branch=HEAD&branchtype=match&dir=mozilla%2Fbrowser%2Flocales%2Fen-US%2F%2Cmozilla%2Fdom%2Flocales%2Fen-US%2F%2Cmozilla%2Fextensions%2Freporter%2Flocales%2Fen-US%2F%2Cmozilla%2Fnetwerk%2Flocales%2Fen-US%2F%2Cmozilla%2Fsecurity%2Fmanager%2Flocales%2Fen-US%2F%2Cmozilla%2Ftoolkit%2Flocales%2Fen-US%2F%2Cmozilla%2Fmail%2Flocales%2Fen-US%2F%2Cmozilla%2Feditor%2Fui%2Flocales%2Fen-US%2F&file=&filetype=match&who=&whotype=match&sortby=Date&hours=2&date=month&mindate=&maxdate=&cvsroot=%2Fcvsroot

The link above shows all checkins in the different locales/en-US/ directories which are relevant for Fx / Tb and maybe suite l10n.

Comment 2

[Alex Ihrig [:Thunderbird_Mail_DE]]

One more thing: It would be helpfull to query through comm-central and mozilla-central at the same time.

Comment 4

[timeless]

1. load
http://mxr-test.konigsberg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/accessible/ (yes, you need to be whitelisted, contact me on irc)
2. click the hg web query by date links at the top right (the right most box is
hgweb, the left box is bonsai)

expected results:
if a checkin affected a file which was in the path='d directory during the date
range, show the checkin
if a checkin caused file to move in or out of the path='d directory during the
date range, show the checkin
if a checkin only affected files which have been moved into the path after the
date range, don't decide to show the checkin because of that file
if a checkin only affected files which have been moved out of the path before
the date range, don't decide to show the checkin because of that file

Comment 6

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Querying directory history in Mercurial is slow. (Querying individual file history is fast, however - this is the opposite behavior of Git.)

I am therefore reluctant to expose a computationally expensive operation on the server. If you want to perform these types of queries, you should clone the repository and run them locally.

http://www.selenic.com/hg/help/revsets and http://www.selenic.com/hg/help/templates should give you everything you need. Mercurial 3.2 will support -Tjson on many commands to give you machine readable JSON output from commands.