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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.

#!/bin/sh
rm -rf a
hg init a
cd a
touch a
hg ci -Am0
hg mv a a1
hg ci -m1
hg co 0
hg mv a a2
hg up
hg ci -m2

touch a
hg ci -Am3
hg mv a b
hg ci -Am4 a
hg ci --debug --traceback -Am5 b
hg verify
hg export --git tip