On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.dewrote:
If you happen to know when and why $baseRevId was introduced, please enlighten me.
"When" is easy enough: http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/34987
If I had to guess at the "why", I'd guess it was probably for FlaggedRevs and auto-reviewing.