[Python-Dev] hg diff

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Am 08.03.2011 11:19, schrieb 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

That requires a local repository, right? Plus it requires knowing the 
branch name, which makes it difficult for automated patch generation.

Regards,
Martin