[Python-Dev] combined hg incoming patch

[Brendan Cully]

On 2011-03-07, at 2:18 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Am 07.03.2011 23:09, schrieb Brendan Cully:
>> On 2011-03-07, at 1:03 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> 
>>> I'd like to experiment with adding Rietveld support for reviewing
>>> remote repositories. For that, I'd need to create a single patch
>>> (programmatically) that covers all incoming changes. 'hg incoming -p'
>>> mostly works, but it may provide multiple patches for a single file,
>>> which I think would harm the review (since some changes may be superseded in a separate patch).
>>> 
>>> So I would need to compute the most recent revision in both repositories, and then create a diff between the default head
>>> of the remote repository and that base revision.
>> 
>> You might like the rdiff extension, which does essentially this.
>> 
>> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/RdiffExtension
> 
> I've looked at it, and it does something different. It computes the diff between the local tip and the remote tip. What I want is a diff between the common ancestor between the two, and the remote tip.

Ah right. Well, I think this shell should work (with hg new enough to have revsets):

hg in --bundle tmp.bundle
hg diff -r 'outgoing(.)' -R tmp.bundle