Reviewing incoming changesets

[Steve Borho]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Yannick Gingras <ygingras at ygingras.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>  I'm trying to improve our development pipeline with systematic code
> reviews before cross branch (or cross developer) merges.  One thing
> that I would like to do is to export a compound diff of all the
> changesets that I get in `hg inc otherbranch`, but only for source
> code.
>
> I'm pretty sure that I will have to roll out my own extension for that
> but there might be something out there that does most of what I want.
> Any recommendations?

If you have a visual diff tool configured with extdiff, you can do
this fairly easily:

hg vdiff -r branch1 -r branch2

The TortoiseHg changelog tool makes this a bit easier to do, since it
allows you to show diffs between any two arbitrary revisions.

--
Steve Borho