Question

Is it possible to use patchbomb to not just sign a diff with your key but to encrypt the diff to be sent to a specific key as well? For example, I want to send a diff to a coworker of mine via e-mail, but I want to encrypt the diff so that only he can read it (theoretically ;)). Does patchbomb support this?

Answer 1

You ask:

[…] I want to send a diff to a coworker of mine via e-mail, but I want to encrypt the diff so that only he can read it (theoretically ;)). Does patchbomb support this?

The answer is no. The patchbomb extension does not work with the gpg extension in any way. It doesn’t know how to sign emails and it doesn’t know how to encrypt them either.

Even the commitsigs extension cannot be used for this since the meta data it puts into the changesets isn’t exported by hg email.

Your best option is to use hg export to get a patch and then copy-paste the patch into a mail client that does support encryption/signing.