[Python-Dev] hg diff

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:38:27 +0100
"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> 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.

If you use named branches it's trivial, and it's suggested in the
devguide in
http://docs.python.org/devguide/committing.html#long-term-development-of-features

Regards

Antoine.