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Mercurial : See more changesets at once

I do use Netbeans and TortoiseHG to manage and view Mercurial changesets but my problem is that I want to see differences for a range of changeset.

Real case: Gil is working on a feature in his own repo and he adds more changes incrementally. His changesets are: 47(message: initial tests), 48, 49 (message: fixed bug added in 47), 50 (message: feature ready).

[Changeset 46 was made by me (Alex) so I know the code until 46 inclusive]

If I do review each commit I might spend time on bugs he already fixed down the road (ex: I see a bug in 47 but he fixed it in 49).

I want to avoid reviewing each commit and I want to be able to review whole 47-50 range at once - as a single change set.

Is there any tool, option, tweak to achieve that?

Solution

  • TortoiseHg can launch a visual diff of two revisions or it can output a diff file for them.

    The instructions for Windows are as follows:

    1. Click on one revision
    2. Ctrl-click the other revision
    3. Right click on either of them
    4. Visual Diff... will launch your configured visual difference tool and Export Diff... will create a patch file for you to review.

    This is probably available for other OSs that TortoiseHg supports but the clicks may be different.

    This launches KDiff3 on my system which gives a tree containing all the changed files. Double-clicking on one of the files show the changes in another pane.