Mercurial: Creating a diff of two commits

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Published on 2010-05-03T19:58:09Z Indexed on 2010/05/24 6:21 UTC
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Is there a way to get the changes of two commits with mercurial? The second commit is not directly after the first one, there are some other ones between them.

I tried

hg diff [some params] --change xxxxx --change yyyyy > file.patch

but that only includes the last changeset.

If there is no way to achieve this with hg, is there maybe a tool to combine patches?

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