Exporting diffs without having to commit in Mercurial

Question

I am using TortoiseHg GUI and it seems that there is no way to export diffs between my uncommited changes and the last revision. Is there a way to do it using hg ?

My requirements :

• I do not want to commit my changes
• I could copy the whole directory, commit, export, delete but the directory is quite heavy

Answer 1

It can be done very simply by a patch file via

hg diff > foo.patch

Then the patch can be applied on the other repo via

hg import --no-commit foo.patch

Answer 2

1. You could commit your changes, choose Export -> Export Patch from the context menu of the changeset and then rollback (Repository -> Rollback/Undo)
2. Alternatively, you could select all the uncommitted changes and then choose the Copy Patch option in the context menu. This copies a patch for all your changes to your clipboard. Then open up your favourite text editor and paste the contents into the new buffer and save this as a patch.