The Mercurial DSCCM system has the ability to create, read and apply “bundles”. Bundles are files containing compressed Mercurial changesets (including any binary content). Bundles are useful for transferring changesets between disconnected, or intermittently connected repositories.
Often, it’s a good idea to inspect the bundle contents before unbundling. Mercurial treats a bundle as a repository in and of itself, and therefore it’s possible to see the log entries in a bundle thusly:
hg -R ~/path/to_bundle.hg outgoing
When executed from within a working copy, the command will show a summary of the changesets contained within the bundle, but not contained in the working copy.
