#!/bin/sh hg init repo cd repo touch foo hg add foo for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11; do echo "foo-$i" >> foo hg ci -m "foo-$i" -d "0 0" done for out in "%nof%N" "%%%H" "%b-%R" "%h" "%r"; do echo "# foo-$out.patch" hg export -v -o "foo-$out.patch" 2:tip done echo "# exporting 4 changesets to a file" hg export -o export_internal 1 2 3 4 grep HG export_internal | wc -l | sed -e 's/^ *//' echo "# exporting 4 changesets to a file" hg export 1 2 3 4 | grep HG | wc -l | sed -e 's/^ *//'