diff to tag includes .hgtags

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 10:17:49AM +0800, Soh Tk-r28629 wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > > I noticed the the .hgtags file is also versioned. So, when I try to
> > > generate patches on my changes by diff'ing again a tag, changes on
> > > .hgtags is also included in the patches, since the tagging
> > > changesets are placed after the tagged ones. How could I get rid of
> > > the changes on .hgtags file?
> > 
> > hg diff -r TAG | filterdiff -x .hgtags
> 
> You will need -p1 here:
> 
>   hg diff -r TAG | filterdiff -p1 -x .hgtags
> 
> The issue is that this will add an additional dependency for hg. And
> installing patchutils isn't so straigtforward outside linux -
> there're errors that I chose to ignore the last time I installed it
> on my Solaris box.
> 
> Is there any reason .hgtags is not in the .hg directory, and/or
> managed independently from user's project files, since it's just
> holding hg's internal transaction data?

Because that introduces many more corner cases than simply excluding
it from hg diff. How about we just add -x support to hg diff, which
deals with this nicely and orthogonally.

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