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Bug 169288

Summary: add support for external and vcs diff/patch functionality
Product: utilities Reporter: Tomas Stupka <tstupka>
Component: DiffAssignee: Ondrej Vrabec <ovrabec>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: blocker CC: jglick
Priority: P3    
Version: 6.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:

Description Tomas Stupka 2009-07-28 09:18:41 UTC 
the netbeans patch facility should delegate to the actual VCS if it has such functionality, e.g. 'hg imp --no-commit',
otherwise to /usr/bin/patch if that exists, and only to a built-in impl as a last resort.

see also 168246
Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2009-07-28 13:55:15 UTC 
Perhaps it's a separate issue, but analogously the VCS' diff command should be preferred to the built-in one. For
example, 'hg di --git' is much better for exporting a diff from a Hg repository than the crude format the IDE generates.
Comment 2 Tomas Stupka 2009-07-28 14:14:23 UTC 
lets handle it together in one issue...
Comment 3 Ondrej Vrabec 2010-02-26 07:24:51 UTC 
one problem to discuss: in the diff generated by IDE there are also locally new files (not yet added) but 'hg diff' doesn't consider these files and skips them, right? Do we dare to skip them, too?
Comment 4 Jesse Glick 2010-02-26 10:05:49 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> there are also locally new files (not yet added)

So 'hg add' them.

(I wish you would anyway; it is a real pain to have to remember to run 'hg addrem' after using the IDE to create new files and then running external hg commands such as 'hg qnew -f'. 'hg rm' is already correctly run when files are deleted from the IDE, and 'hg ren' when they are moved.)