commit: Fix specifier inheritance behavior

[Michael Sperber]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull at sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:

> Michael Sperber writes:
>  > 
>  > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
>  > 
>  > > (1) I don't want to see merge turds.  The commit bot should be diffing
>  > > against the parent of the commit, not against the previous revision.
>  > > They're typically different in the case of merges.
>  > 
>  > I guess I still don't understand what you're trying to accomplish: A
>  > merge commit has *two* parents.
>
> The problem I'm worried about now is not the merge, it's the commit
> that creates a new head, which requires a merge or you can't push.

I'm confused even more: I thought we're talking about the *commit bot*,
not your local setup.

> hg diff -r`hg log -r REV --template='{parents}\n'` -r REV

Yeah, well, it can be refined to work for non-merge commits: My question
was whether it's what you want to see for merge commits.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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