--- a/autoland/tests/test-autoland-closed-tree.t
+++ b/autoland/tests/test-autoland-closed-tree.t
@@ -36,24 +36,25 @@ Create a commit to test on Try
   summary:    Bug 1 - some stuff
   review:     http://$DOCKER_HOSTNAME:$HGPORT1/r/2 (draft)
   
   review id:  bz://1/mynick
   review url: http://$DOCKER_HOSTNAME:$HGPORT1/r/1 (draft)
   
   (review requests lack reviewers; visit review url to assign reviewers)
   (visit review url to publish these review requests so others can see them)
+  $ REV=`hg log -r . --template "{node|short}"`
 
 Close the tree
 
   $ treestatus set-status $TREESTATUS_URL try closed
 
 Post a job
 
-  $ ottoland post-autoland-job $AUTOLAND_URL test-repo `hg log -r . --template "{node|short}"` try http://localhost:9898 --trysyntax "stuff"
+  $ ottoland post-autoland-job $AUTOLAND_URL test-repo $REV try http://localhost:9898 --trysyntax "stuff"
   (200, u'{\n  "request_id": 1\n}')
   $ ottoland autoland-job-status $AUTOLAND_URL 1 --poll
   timed out
 
 Open the tree
 
   $ treestatus set-status $TREESTATUS_URL try open
   $ ottoland autoland-job-status $AUTOLAND_URL 1 --poll

--- a/autoland/tests/test-autoland-merge.t
+++ b/autoland/tests/test-autoland-merge.t
@@ -32,20 +32,20 @@ Create a commit to test on Try
   
   changeset:  1:e2507be7827c
   summary:    Bug 1 - some stuff; r?cthulhu
   review:     http://$DOCKER_HOSTNAME:$HGPORT1/r/2 (draft)
   
   review id:  bz://1/mynick
   review url: http://$DOCKER_HOSTNAME:$HGPORT1/r/1 (draft)
   (visit review url to publish these review requests so others can see them)
+  $ REV=`hg log -r . --template "{node|short}"`
 
 Post a job
 
-  $ REV=`hg log -r . --template "{node|short}"`
   $ ottoland post-autoland-job $AUTOLAND_URL test-repo $REV inbound http://localhost:9898 --commit-descriptions "{\"$REV\": \"Bug 1 - some stuff; r=cthulhu\"}"
   (200, u'{\n  "request_id": 1\n}')
   $ ottoland autoland-job-status $AUTOLAND_URL 1 --poll
   (200, u'{\n  "commit_descriptions": {\n    "e2507be7827c": "Bug 1 - some stuff; r=cthulhu"\n  }, \n  "destination": "inbound", \n  "error_msg": "", \n  "landed": true, \n  "ldap_username": "autolanduser@example.com", \n  "result": "3bce87fd55d0", \n  "rev": "e2507be7827c", \n  "tree": "test-repo"\n}')
   $ mozreview exec autoland hg log /repos/inbound-test-repo/ --template '{rev}:{desc\|firstline}:{phase}\\n'
   0:Bug 1 - some stuff; r=cthulhu:public
 
 Post a job with a bad merge

--- a/autoland/tests/test-post-autoland-job-from-repo.t
+++ b/autoland/tests/test-post-autoland-job-from-repo.t
@@ -32,26 +32,27 @@ Create a commit to test on Try
   
   changeset:  1:e2507be7827c
   summary:    Bug 1 - some stuff; r?cthulhu
   review:     http://$DOCKER_HOSTNAME:$HGPORT1/r/2 (draft)
   
   review id:  bz://1/mynick
   review url: http://$DOCKER_HOSTNAME:$HGPORT1/r/1 (draft)
   (visit review url to publish these review requests so others can see them)
+  $ REV=`hg log -r . --template "{node|short}"`
 
 Ensure Autoland started without errors
 
   $ mozreview exec autoland tail -n 20 /home/autoland/autoland.log
   starting autoland
   * autoland INFO starting autoland (glob)
 
 Posting a job with bad credentials should fail
 
-  $ ottoland post-autoland-job $AUTOLAND_URL test-repo `hg log -r . --template "{node|short}"` try http://localhost:9898 --user blah --password blah
+  $ ottoland post-autoland-job $AUTOLAND_URL test-repo $REV try http://localhost:9898 --user blah --password blah
   (401, u'Login required')
   $ mozreview exec autoland tail -n1 /var/log/apache2/error.log
   * WARNING:root:Failed authentication for "blah" from * (glob)
 
 Posting a job with without both trysyntax and commit_descriptions should fail
 
   $ ottoland post-autoland-job $AUTOLAND_URL test-repo 42 try http://localhost:9898
   (400, u'{\n  "error": "Bad request: one of trysyntax or commit_descriptions must be specified"\n}')
@@ -60,17 +61,16 @@ Posting a job with an unknown revision s
 
   $ ottoland post-autoland-job $AUTOLAND_URL test-repo 42 try http://localhost:9898 --commit-descriptions "{\"42\": \"bad revision\"}"
   (200, u'{\n  "request_id": 1\n}')
   $ ottoland autoland-job-status $AUTOLAND_URL 1 --poll
   (200, u'{\n  "commit_descriptions": {\n    "42": "bad revision"\n  }, \n  "destination": "try", \n  "error_msg": "hg error in cmd: hg pull test-repo -r 42: pulling from http://hgrb/test-repo\\nabort: unknown revision \'42\'!\\n", \n  "landed": false, \n  "ldap_username": "autolanduser@example.com", \n  "result": "", \n  "rev": "42", \n  "tree": "test-repo"\n}')
 
 Post a job
 
-  $ REV=`hg log -r . --template "{node|short}"`
   $ ottoland post-autoland-job $AUTOLAND_URL test-repo $REV inbound http://localhost:9898 --commit-descriptions "{\"$REV\": \"Bug 1 - some stuff; r=cthulhu\"}"
   (200, u'{\n  "request_id": 2\n}')
   $ ottoland autoland-job-status $AUTOLAND_URL 2 --poll
   (200, u'{\n  "commit_descriptions": {\n    "e2507be7827c": "Bug 1 - some stuff; r=cthulhu"\n  }, \n  "destination": "inbound", \n  "error_msg": "", \n  "landed": true, \n  "ldap_username": "autolanduser@example.com", \n  "result": "3bce87fd55d0", \n  "rev": "e2507be7827c", \n  "tree": "test-repo"\n}')
   $ mozreview exec autoland hg log /repos/inbound-test-repo/ --template '{rev}:{desc\|firstline}:{phase}\\n'
   0:Bug 1 - some stuff; r=cthulhu:public
 
 Post a job with try syntax
@@ -104,18 +104,18 @@ Post a job using a bookmark
   
   changeset:  2:373b6ff60965
   summary:    Bug 1 - more goodness; r?cthulhu
   review:     http://$DOCKER_HOSTNAME:$HGPORT1/r/3 (draft)
   
   review id:  bz://1/mynick
   review url: http://$DOCKER_HOSTNAME:$HGPORT1/r/1 (draft)
   (visit review url to publish these review requests so others can see them)
+  $ REV=`hg log -r . --template "{node|short}"`
 
-  $ REV=`hg log -r . --template "{node|short}"`
   $ ottoland post-autoland-job $AUTOLAND_URL test-repo $REV inbound http://localhost:9898 --push-bookmark "bookmark" --commit-descriptions "{\"$REV\": \"Bug 1 - more goodness; r=cthulhu\"}"
   (200, u'{\n  "request_id": 4\n}')
   $ ottoland autoland-job-status $AUTOLAND_URL 4 --poll
   (200, u'{\n  "commit_descriptions": {\n    "373b6ff60965": "Bug 1 - more goodness; r=cthulhu"\n  }, \n  "destination": "inbound", \n  "error_msg": "", \n  "landed": true, \n  "ldap_username": "autolanduser@example.com", \n  "push_bookmark": "bookmark", \n  "result": "aba7cf08f2e4", \n  "rev": "373b6ff60965", \n  "tree": "test-repo"\n}')
   $ mozreview exec autoland hg log /repos/inbound-test-repo/ --template '{rev}:{desc\|firstline}:{phase}\\n'
   1:Bug 1 - more goodness; r=cthulhu:public
   0:Bug 1 - some stuff; r=cthulhu:public
 
@@ -144,16 +144,17 @@ Post a job with unicode commit descripti
   changeset:  3:e7f4a0f07be3
   summary:    Bug 1 - ?????; r?cthulhu
   review:     http://$DOCKER_HOSTNAME:$HGPORT1/r/4 (draft)
   
   review id:  bz://1/mynick
   review url: http://$DOCKER_HOSTNAME:$HGPORT1/r/1 (draft)
   (visit review url to publish these review requests so others can see them)
   $ REV=`hg log -r . --template "{node|short}"`
+
   $ ottoland post-autoland-job $AUTOLAND_URL test-repo $REV inbound http://localhost:9898 --commit-descriptions "{\"$REV\": \"Bug 1 - \\u3053\\u3093\\u306b\\u3061\\u306f; r=cthulhu\"}"
   (200, u'{\n  "request_id": 5\n}')
   $ ottoland autoland-job-status $AUTOLAND_URL 5 --poll
   (200, u'{\n  "commit_descriptions": {\n    "e7f4a0f07be3": "Bug 1 - \\u3053\\u3093\\u306b\\u3061\\u306f; r=cthulhu"\n  }, \n  "destination": "inbound", \n  "error_msg": "", \n  "landed": true, \n  "ldap_username": "autolanduser@example.com", \n  "result": "8ec6d9d32147", \n  "rev": "e7f4a0f07be3", \n  "tree": "test-repo"\n}')
 
   $ mozreview exec autoland hg log --encoding=utf-8 /repos/inbound-test-repo/ --template '{rev}:{desc\|firstline}:{phase}\\n'
   2:Bug 1 - \xe3\x81\x93\xe3\x82\x93\xe3\x81\xab\xe3\x81\xa1\xe3\x81\xaf; r=cthulhu:public (esc)
   1:Bug 1 - more goodness; r=cthulhu:public
@@ -178,17 +179,16 @@ Getting status for an unknown job should
   $ mozreview exec autoland hg log --encoding=utf-8 /repos/inbound-test-repo/ --template '{rev}:{desc\|firstline}:{phase}\\n'
   2:Bug 1 - \xe3\x81\x93\xe3\x82\x93\xe3\x81\xab\xe3\x81\xa1\xe3\x81\xaf; r=cthulhu:public (esc)
   1:Bug 1 - more goodness; r=cthulhu:public
   0:Bug 1 - some stuff; r=cthulhu:public
 
 Test pingback url whitelist.  localhost, private IPs, and example.com are in
 the whitelist. example.org is not.
 
-  $ REV=`hg log -r . --template "{node|short}"`
   $ ottoland post-autoland-job $AUTOLAND_URL test-repo $REV inbound1 http://example.com:9898 --commit-descriptions "{\"$REV\": \"Bug 1 - some stuff; r=cthulhu\"}"
   (200, u'{\n  "request_id": 6\n}')
   $ ottoland post-autoland-job $AUTOLAND_URL test-repo $REV inbound2 http://localhost --commit-descriptions "{\"$REV\": \"Bug 1 - some stuff; r=cthulhu\"}"
   (200, u'{\n  "request_id": 7\n}')
   $ ottoland post-autoland-job $AUTOLAND_URL test-repo $REV inbound3 http://127.0.0.1 --commit-descriptions "{\"$REV\": \"Bug 1 - some stuff; r=cthulhu\"}"
   (200, u'{\n  "request_id": 8\n}')
   $ ottoland post-autoland-job $AUTOLAND_URL test-repo $REV inbound4 http://192.168.0.1 --commit-descriptions "{\"$REV\": \"Bug 1 - some stuff; r=cthulhu\"}"
   (200, u'{\n  "request_id": 9\n}')
@@ -201,16 +201,15 @@ the whitelist. example.org is not.
   $ ottoland post-autoland-job $AUTOLAND_URL test-repo $REV inbound8 http://example.org:9898 --commit-descriptions "{\"$REV\": \"Bug 1 - some stuff; r=cthulhu\"}"
   (400, u'{\n  "error": "Bad request: bad pingback_url"\n}')
 
 Post the same job twice.  Start with stopping the autoland service to
 guarentee the first request is still in the queue when the second is submitted.
 
   $ PID=`mozreview exec autoland ps x | grep autoland.py | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $1 }'`
   $ mozreview exec autoland kill $PID
-  $ REV=`hg log -r . --template "{node|short}"`
   $ ottoland post-autoland-job $AUTOLAND_URL test-repo $REV try http://localhost:9898 --trysyntax "stuff"
   (200, u'{\n  "request_id": 12\n}')
   $ ottoland post-autoland-job $AUTOLAND_URL test-repo $REV try http://localhost:9898 --trysyntax "stuff"
   (400, u'{\n  "error": "Bad Request: a request to land revision e7f4a0f07be3 to try is already in progress"\n}')
 
   $ mozreview stop
   stopped 9 containers