TortoiseHg Apply a Patch

Question

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?

Solution Thanks @Will Bickford for your help. I just found this feature listed as a TODO on the TortoiseHg site.

Answer 1

From Repository Explorer, Repository > Import...

Answer 2

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.

First Stab Answer

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...

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

In 1.0, from Workbench: Repository > Import...

Answer 5

Tortoise Hg has documentation on creating and applying (importing) patches:

http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.io/manual/1.0/patches.html