It should be of no surprise to readers of this blog that I am a fan of Git. If you know me, you will also know that I am no fan of Bzr.

I was working on something today and wanted to export a patch… you know, like git format-patch does. Well, bzr does not seem to have an equivalent.

I had to hack something together in a shell script… bzr-export-patch is a crude approximation of git format-patch. (download)

Here is what it looks like…

    # bzr-export-patch 
    show_help - export a revno as a patch

    show_help [ --stdout ] <revno>[..<revno>]

To dump a patch to stdout…

    # bzr-export-patch --stdout 200
    revno 200
    From: ... <...@...>
    Date: ...
    Branch-Nick: ...
    Subject: ...
    ...

You can also dump out files like with git format-patch…

    # bzr-export-patch 295
    00295-remove-cpu-from-templte-parameters-.patch

… but I still don’t like bzr.