this structure seems to tickle a bug in bundle's search for changesets, so first we have to recreate it o 8 | | o 7 | | | o 6 |/| o | 5 | | o | 4 | | | o 3 | | | o 2 |/ o 1 | o 0 $ mkrev() > { > revno=$1 > echo "rev $revno" > echo "rev $revno" > foo.txt > hg -q ci -m"rev $revno" > } setup test repo1 $ hg init repo1 $ cd repo1 $ echo "rev 0" > foo.txt $ hg ci -Am"rev 0" adding foo.txt $ mkrev 1 rev 1 first branch $ mkrev 2 rev 2 $ mkrev 3 rev 3 back to rev 1 to create second branch $ hg up -r1 1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved $ mkrev 4 rev 4 $ mkrev 5 rev 5 merge first branch to second branch $ hg up -C -r5 0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved $ HGMERGE=internal:local hg merge 0 files updated, 1 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved (branch merge, don't forget to commit) $ echo "merge rev 5, rev 3" > foo.txt $ hg ci -m"merge first branch to second branch" one more commit following the merge $ mkrev 7 rev 7 back to "second branch" to make another head $ hg up -r5 1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved $ mkrev 8 rev 8 the story so far $ hg log -G --template "{rev}\n" @ 8 | | o 7 | | | o 6 |/| o | 5 | | o | 4 | | | o 3 | | | o 2 |/ o 1 | o 0 check that "hg outgoing" really does the right thing sanity check of outgoing: expect revs 4 5 6 7 8 $ hg clone -r3 . ../repo2 adding changesets adding manifests adding file changes added 4 changesets with 4 changes to 1 files updating to branch default 1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved this should (and does) report 5 outgoing revisions: 4 5 6 7 8 $ hg outgoing --template "{rev}\n" ../repo2 comparing with ../repo2 searching for changes 4 5 6 7 8 test bundle (destination repo): expect 5 revisions this should bundle the same 5 revisions that outgoing reported, but it actually bundles 7 $ hg bundle foo.bundle ../repo2 searching for changes 5 changesets found test bundle (base revision): expect 5 revisions this should (and does) give exactly the same result as bundle with a destination repo... i.e. it's wrong too $ hg bundle --base 3 foo.bundle 5 changesets found $ cd ..