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[Python-Dev] combined hg incoming patch

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Mar 7 23:18:27 CET 2011 
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 which I think would harm the review (since some changes may be superseded in a separate patch).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.

Regards,
Martin
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