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Nishan
Nishan

Reputation: 2871

Mercurial : "diff" of a changeset in template

I am trying to display the diff of each changed file in a changeset, using a template.

What I need is something very similar to "hg diff" command. I cannot find anything which might serve my purpose in the help here

To add context, I am trying to use this template in Bugzilla extension. I need to add the diff of the changes which went in to bugzilla ticket.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 237

Answers (1)

cdugz
cdugz

Reputation: 21

You can use diff() pattern

(extract from hg help templates - better than URL referenced by you)

- diff([includepattern [, excludepattern]])

You if you don't specify any patterns, it will simply give you the equivalent of hg log -p. If you want to print diff per file, you will need to pass explicit filenames as includepattern parameter, like

hg log -r tip --template "{diff('mercurial/bundlerepo.py')}"

Looping through the list of files (like "{files % '{file}'}" in templates help) seems broken in this case (well, I didn't manage to make it work). Probably it's a bug, so you can write to mercurial discussion list to get confirmation.

Anyways, to get more luxury support, better to write to mercurial discussion list, or join #mercurial IRC and ask :)

Also they will guide you on how to achieve what you are trying to do in better way - seems you are trying to reinvent something

Upvotes: 1

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