[Python-Dev] hg diff

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

"Martin v. Löwis" writes:

 > > 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.

Doesn't "hg diff -r 'ancestor(branch,default)::branch'", where "branch"
is the unmerged branch you would like to inspect, do the right thing?

The revision function ancestor() gives the most recent common ancestor
of two revisions.

hg --version 
Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.8)