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diff: add --inverse option
Most of the time, one can reverse a diff by swapping the revisions passed with
-r but it happens that if you use the global -R, and diff against the tip of
the current repo, you can't swap the revisions. One use-case for that is
reviewing changes from a bundle before unbundling. One could also pipe the
output of `hg diff` to a command line filter that reverses the diff, but that
would remove the benefit from color diffs. Therefore, having an option in
`hg diff` to reverse a diff is a good thing.
The option flag selection was tricky. GNU patch uses -R/--reverse but -R is
already used as a global option and --reverse would make --rev ambiguous.
author | Yannick Gingras <ygingras@ygingras.net> |
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date | Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:18:56 +0100 |
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adding a diff -r 2855cdcfcbb7 -r 8e1805a3cf6e a --- a/a Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/a Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -d -e -f +a +b +c diff -r 2855cdcfcbb7 a --- a/a +++ b/a @@ -1,5 +1,3 @@ d e f -g -h