extract: parse 'nodeid' using the generic mechanism
Parsing 'nodeid' is very simple and a good first test.
$ hg init
$ touch a
$ hg add a
$ hg ci -m "a"
$ echo 123 > b
$ hg add b
$ hg diff --nodates
diff -r 3903775176ed b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/b
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+123
$ hg diff --nodates -r tip
diff -r 3903775176ed b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/b
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+123
$ echo foo > a
$ hg diff --nodates
diff -r 3903775176ed a
--- a/a
+++ b/a
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+foo
diff -r 3903775176ed b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/b
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+123
$ hg diff -r ""
hg: parse error: empty query
[255]
$ hg diff -r tip -r ""
hg: parse error: empty query
[255]