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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.

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test-context.py
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import os
from mercurial import hg, ui
u = ui.ui()
repo = hg.repository(u, 'test1', create=1)
os.chdir('test1')
# create 'foo' with fixed time stamp
f = open('foo', 'w')
f.write('foo\n')
f.close()
os.utime('foo', (1000, 1000))
# add+commit 'foo'
repo.add(['foo'])
repo.commit(text='commit1', date="0 0")
print "workingfilectx.date =", repo[None]['foo'].date()