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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

mkdir t
cd t
hg init
echo This is file a1 > a
echo This is file b1 > b
hg add a b
hg commit -m "commit #0" -d "1000000 0"
echo This is file b22 > b
hg commit -m"comment #1" -d "1000000 0"
hg update 0
rm b
hg commit -A -m"comment #2" -d "1000000 0"
mv a c
# in theory, we shouldn't need the "-y" below, but it prevents
# this test from hanging when "hg update" erroneously prompts the
# user for "keep or delete"
echo % should abort
hg update -y 1
mv c a
echo % should succeed
hg update -y 1

exit 0