[Python-Dev] hg diff

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 2011-03-08 10:53, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> On 2011-03-08 09:38, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
>>> However, as Michael points out, you can have your tools generate the
>>> patch.  For example, it shouldn't be too hard to add a dynamic patch
>>> generator to Roundup (although I haven't thought about the UI or the
>>> CPU burden).
>>
>> For Mercurial, that's more difficult than you might expect. There is "hg 
>> incoming -p", but it has the nasty problem that it may produce
>> multiple patches for a single file.
> 
> I didn't follow/understand closely/completely what your problems is, but
> I wouldn't be surprised if mercurial's 'incoming' command has its
> limitations (it's most likely intentional, since remote inspection is
> limited on purpose and frowned upon by design).
> 
> In general, you have to have all the changesets in a local repo to enjoy
> the full power of mercurial's history inspection tools.
> 
> Maybe the following trick could be interesting for you:
> 
> If you don't want to do an outright pull from a (possibly dubious)
> remote repo into your precious local repo yet, you can instead
> "superimpose" a separate overlay bundle file on your local repo.

OOPS. I failed to notice that this has already been proposed in the
thread "combined hg incoming patch".

Sorry for the noise.