Mercurial - How do I create a .zip of files changed between two revisions?

Question

I have a personal Mercurial repository tracking some changes I am working on. I\'d like to share these changes with a collaborator, however they don\'t have/can\'t get Mercuria

Answer 1

Here is a small and ugly bash script that will do the job, at least if you work in an Linux environment. This has absolutely no checks what so ever and will most likely break when you have moved a file but it is a start.

Command:

zipChanges.sh REVISION REPOSITORY DESTINATION
zipChanges.sh 3 /home/hg/repo /home/hg/files.tgz

Code:

#!/bin/sh
REV=$1
SRC_REPO=$2
DST_ZIP=$3

cd $SRC_REPO
FILES=$(hg status --rev $1 $SRC_REPO | cut -c3-)

IFS=$'\n'
FILENAMES=""
for line in ${FILES}
do
    FILENAMES=$FILENAMES" \""$SRC_REPO"/"$line"\""
done

CMD="tar czf \"$DST_ZIP\" $FILENAMES"

eval $CMD