I’m trying to generate a patch to send to a project that uses Mercurial for their scm. In the middle of some commits, I did an ‘hg pull’ and ‘hg merge’. Since I did not have ‘git rebase’ available, I now have the merged code right in the middle of my commits. If all of my commits were adjacent, I could run ‘hg diff -r a -r b’ to get a patch containing all of the changes. They’re not, so I can’t.
In git, I could run ‘git diff master’ to compare my branch to the master branch, and get a single diff containing all the changes. I tried to find a similar command for hg. The closest I could find was ‘hg outgoing -p’; but this still contains the changes from the merged upstream code. Other examples for accomplishing this on the hg website are so convoluted as to make the average perl programmer balk.
In the end, I had to do a fresh clone, then diff the two directories.
Maybe I’m missing something, but how is it people can think that Mercurial is easier than git?