changeset 11097:9651fa5a3cbf

context: add a changectx.diff() convenience function With this function, extracting diffs becomes trivial: repo = hg.repository(ui.ui(), path=root) ctx = repo['tip'] for out in ctx.diff(): print out
author Steve Borho <steve@borho.org>
date Tue, 04 May 2010 20:12:58 -0500
parents 871088c223ec
children 380ab78dbd69
files mercurial/context.py
diffstat 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/mercurial/context.py	Wed May 05 14:02:45 2010 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/context.py	Tue May 04 20:12:58 2010 -0500
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 from node import nullid, nullrev, short, hex
 from i18n import _
-import ancestor, bdiff, error, util, subrepo
+import ancestor, bdiff, error, util, subrepo, patch
 import os, errno
 
 propertycache = util.propertycache
@@ -204,6 +204,14 @@
     def sub(self, path):
         return subrepo.subrepo(self, path)
 
+    def diff(self, ctx2=None, match=None):
+        """Returns a diff generator for the given contexts and matcher"""
+        if ctx2 is None:
+            ctx2 = self.p1()
+        if ctx2 is not None and not isinstance(ctx2, changectx):
+            ctx2 = self._repo[ctx2]
+        return patch.diff(self._repo, ctx2.node(), self.node(), match=match)
+
 class filectx(object):
     """A filecontext object makes access to data related to a particular
        filerevision convenient."""