TortoiseHg allows you to email a patch file of your changes to someone, but does it support applying patches?
If so, how do you apply a patch using TortoiseHg?
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From Repository Explorer, Repository > Import...
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Good call. As of V1.0 patch importing is part is part of TortoiseHg – Michael La Voie Apr 05 '10 at 01:07
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It looks like there is no built-in support in TortoiseHg for this. Try this from a command prompt:
hg import my-patch-file.patch
That should apply the patch to your Mercurial repo and working copy.
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You should be able to right-click on the patch file and choose "Apply patch..." - that's how it works for other TortoiseX clients. Make sure that you save the patch file to the same directory path it was generated from.
Downloading TortoiseHg 0.8.1 to test...
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Yeah I downloaded it and it took me a while to find the "email patch" feature you were referring to. Tinkering... – Will Bickford Sep 09 '09 at 22:20
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What may be also noteworthy is, that "Repository Explorer, Synchronize > Import..." (which internally does a "hg import") will automatically do a "commit" - this may not be always wanted behaviour.
Other possibility is to use unix "patch" command (on Windows perhaps use cygwin version) or use "hg import" directly with "--no-commit" option. Both will just make changes in working directory and you may review the changes and commit them later manually.
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