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subrepo: compare svn subrepo state to last committed revision...
subrepo: compare svn subrepo state to last committed revision A subversion project revisions are a subset of the repository revisions, you can ask subversion to update a working directory from one revision to another without changing anything. Unfortunately, Mercurial will think the subrepository has changed and will commit it again. To avoid useless commits, we compare the subrepository state to its actual "parent" revision. To ensure ascending compatibility with existing subrepositories which might reference fake revisions, we also keep comparing with the subrepo working directory revision. NOTE: not sure if this should go in stable or not.

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diffs.txt
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Mercurial's default format for showing changes between two versions of
a file is compatible with the unified format of GNU diff, which can be
used by GNU patch and many other standard tools.
While this standard format is often enough, it does not encode the
following information:
- executable status and other permission bits
- copy or rename information
- changes in binary files
- creation or deletion of empty files
Mercurial also supports the extended diff format from the git VCS
which addresses these limitations. The git diff format is not produced
by default because a few widespread tools still do not understand this
format.
This means that when generating diffs from a Mercurial repository
(e.g. with :hg:`export`), you should be careful about things like file
copies and renames or other things mentioned above, because when
applying a standard diff to a different repository, this extra
information is lost. Mercurial's internal operations (like push and
pull) are not affected by this, because they use an internal binary
format for communicating changes.
To make Mercurial produce the git extended diff format, use the --git
option available for many commands, or set 'git = True' in the [diff]
section of your configuration file. You do not need to set this option
when importing diffs in this format or using them in the mq extension.