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diff: add --inverse option...
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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invoking hg diff --nodates --change 1:
diff -r 4bb65dda5db4 -r e9b286083166 file.txt
--- a/file.txt
+++ b/file.txt
@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@
-first
+second
invoking hg diff --nodates --change e9b286083166:
diff -r 4bb65dda5db4 -r e9b286083166 file.txt
--- a/file.txt
+++ b/file.txt
@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@
-first
+second
invoking hg diff --nodates --change 6:
diff -r e8a0797e73a6 -r aa9873050139 file.txt
--- a/file.txt
+++ b/file.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@
5
6
7
-8
+y
9
10
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