mercurial/helptext/diffs.txt
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
Tue, 18 Jan 2022 00:19:04 +0100
changeset 48675 a3cf460a6b1b
parent 43676 2e017696181f
permissions -rw-r--r--
stream-clone: also filter the requirement we put in the bundle 2 We were wrongly putting irrelevant requirements in the bundle and the receiving side was getting confused, treating them as being missing while still putting them in the `requires` file. Leading do corrupted repositories. This changes fix stream-clone behavior regarding format when bundle-2 is involved, so we now also test this cases. Behavior with older version of Mercurial will be fine as they filter the requirements they get from the bundle on their side anyway. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12084

Mercurial's default format for showing changes between two versions of
a file is compatible with the unified format of GNU diff, which can be
used by GNU patch and many other standard tools.

While this standard format is often enough, it does not encode the
following information:

- executable status and other permission bits
- copy or rename information
- changes in binary files
- creation or deletion of empty files

Mercurial also supports the extended diff format from the git VCS
which addresses these limitations. The git diff format is not produced
by default because a few widespread tools still do not understand this
format.

This means that when generating diffs from a Mercurial repository
(e.g. with :hg:`export`), you should be careful about things like file
copies and renames or other things mentioned above, because when
applying a standard diff to a different repository, this extra
information is lost. Mercurial's internal operations (like push and
pull) are not affected by this, because they use an internal binary
format for communicating changes.

To make Mercurial produce the git extended diff format, use the --git
option available for many commands, or set 'git = True' in the [diff]
section of your configuration file. You do not need to set this option
when importing diffs in this format or using them in the mq extension.