From 94c9a3dde7004b0367c2f65429c864ead68d2175 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Adrian=20Schr=C3=B6ter?= <adrian@suse.de>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:56:36 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] use the baserev on links by default for diffing

---
 NEWS        | 1 +
 osc/core.py | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 01d30466..9f9454a9 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
  - fixed SSL proxy support
  - fixed meta attribute create and set calls
  - osc remotebuildlog supports a buildlogurl
+ - use the baserev on links by default for diffing
 
 0.125
  - add "osc pull" command to fetch and merge changes in the link target
diff --git a/osc/core.py b/osc/core.py
index 94a78f0a..5cf8eab6 100644
--- a/osc/core.py
+++ b/osc/core.py
@@ -2959,7 +2959,8 @@ def server_diff(apiurl,
                 old_project, old_package, old_revision,
                 new_project, new_package, new_revision, unified=False):
 
-    query = {'cmd': 'diff', 'expand': '1'}
+    # we default to the baserev here. an option to try to use the current base rev might be nice
+    query = {'cmd': 'diff', 'expand': '1', 'linkrev': 'base', 'olinkrev': 'base'}
     if old_project:
         query['oproject'] = old_project
     if old_package: