[Python-Dev] combined hg incoming patch

[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 which I think would harm the review (since some changes may be superseded in a separate patch).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