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      <para>You can enable the <literal
	  role="hg-ext">extdiff</literal> extension in the usual way,
	by adding a line to the <literal
	  role="rc-extensions">extensions</literal> section of your
	<filename role="special"> /.hgrc</filename>.</para>
      <programlisting>[extensions] extdiff =</programlisting>
      <para>The <command>interdiff</command> command expects to be
	passed the names of two files, but the <literal
	  role="hg-ext">extdiff</literal> extension passes the program
	it runs a pair of directories, each of which can contain an
	arbitrary number of files.  We thus need a small program that

	&example.hg-interdiff; --></para>

      <para>With the <filename role="special">hg-interdiff</filename>
	program in your shell's search path, you can run it as
	follows, from inside an MQ patch directory:</para>
      <programlisting>hg extdiff -p hg-interdiff -r A:B
	my-change.patch</programlisting>
      <para>Since you'll probably want to use this long-winded command
	a lot, you can get <literal role="hg-ext">hgext</literal> to
	make it available as a normal Mercurial command, again by
	editing your <filename role="special">
	  /.hgrc</filename>.</para>
      <programlisting>[extdiff] cmd.interdiff =
	hg-interdiff</programlisting>
      <para>This directs <literal role="hg-ext">hgext</literal> to
	make an <literal>interdiff</literal> command available, so you
	can now shorten the previous invocation of <command
	  role="hg-ext-extdiff">extdiff</command> to something a
	little more wieldy.</para>
      <programlisting>hg interdiff -r A:B
	my-change.patch</programlisting>

      <note>
	<para>  The <command>interdiff</command> command works well
	  only if the underlying files against which versions of a
	  patch are generated remain the same.  If you create a patch,

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      <para>You can enable the <literal
	  role="hg-ext">extdiff</literal> extension in the usual way,
	by adding a line to the <literal
	  role="rc-extensions">extensions</literal> section of your
	<filename role="special">~/.hgrc</filename>.</para>
      <programlisting>[extensions]
extdiff =</programlisting>
      <para>The <command>interdiff</command> command expects to be
	passed the names of two files, but the <literal
	  role="hg-ext">extdiff</literal> extension passes the program
	it runs a pair of directories, each of which can contain an
	arbitrary number of files.  We thus need a small program that

	&example.hg-interdiff; --></para>

      <para>With the <filename role="special">hg-interdiff</filename>
	program in your shell's search path, you can run it as
	follows, from inside an MQ patch directory:</para>
      <programlisting>hg extdiff -p hg-interdiff -r A:B my-change.patch</programlisting>
      <para>Since you'll probably want to use this long-winded command
	a lot, you can get <literal role="hg-ext">hgext</literal> to
	make it available as a normal Mercurial command, again by
	editing your <filename
	  role="special">~/.hgrc</filename>.</para>
      <programlisting>[extdiff]
cmd.interdiff = hg-interdiff</programlisting>
      <para>This directs <literal role="hg-ext">hgext</literal> to
	make an <literal>interdiff</literal> command available, so you
	can now shorten the previous invocation of <command
	  role="hg-ext-extdiff">extdiff</command> to something a
	little more wieldy.</para>
      <programlisting>hg interdiff -r A:B my-change.patch</programlisting>

      <note>
	<para>  The <command>interdiff</command> command works well
	  only if the underlying files against which versions of a
	  patch are generated remain the same.  If you create a patch,