928477 - bzexport should default to '.' and not 'tip' for exported revision

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Services :: Mercurial: bzexport, defect)

Description

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

bzexport currently defaults to 'tip' when choosing the revision to export. This fails to work with bookmark or branch workflows.

I'm in the process of switching my workflow to branches. My local repo contains a bunch of changesets that never get exported to published repositories. I frequently commit new changes on my bookmarks then pull new changesets from the canonical repos. This means that 'tip' is typically inbound's head. bzexport attempts to export 'tip' and not my active head. I think this is wrong.

I believe bzexport should export '.' by default instead.

Fortunately, you can work around this by running |hg bzexport .|.

Comment 1

[Steve Fink [:sfink] [:s:]]

Attachment: Default to "." instead of "tip"

Yeah, using 'tip' for just about anything is Wrong.

Comment 2

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Comment on attachment 819138 [details] [diff] [review]
Default to "." instead of "tip"

Review of attachment 819138 [details] [diff] [review]:
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lgtm :-)

Comment 3

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

This is probably an artifact of me not understanding the difference at the time I wrote bzexport.

Comment 4

[Steve Fink [:sfink] [:s:]]

I've never actually used bzexport with anything but mq patches, so I'm not entirely clear what it does for other commits.