Call patch.diff directly instead of printdiff - this also saves an
extra walk of the working directory.
diff -r acd8075edac9 b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/b
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+123
diff -r acd8075edac9 b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/b
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+123
diff -r acd8075edac9 a
--- a/a
+++ b/a
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+foo
diff -r acd8075edac9 b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/b
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+123