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In git the patch process is the same but the original author is retained. Git stores the author separately from the committer. Does anyone know if hg has a sim

• shuzchen 14y ago
  Looking into it today, it seems what a patch looks like depends on the tool. Git by default (using a command like git format-patch) adds a From: header value that contains the original author. Mercurial (using a command like hg export) includes the original author, but it shows up in commented lines. However, looking at the devguide (http://docs.python.org/devguide/patch.html http://docs.python.org/devguide/patch.html), they tell you to run hg diff, which creates a barebones patch file with no author metadata.