On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 01:15:48PM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote:
> >
> > Is meld more than just a visual 3-way merge tool, like xxdiff or kdiff3?
> >
> > Can meld be plugged into Fossil using the "gmerge-command" setting?
> >
> 
> While we're on the subject, should the gmerge-command setting be extended to
> be "smart" about commonly used graphical merges.  Should you be able to say
> just:
> 
>       fossil setting gmerge-command kdiff3
> 
> and fossil would know to add the "%baseline" "%original" "%merge" -o
> "%output" arguments onto the end automatically?  Similar automatic arguments
> would apply to xxdiff and meld, perhaps?  Or is that a case of the software
> trying to be too clever?

I think that's too clever. I'd keep fossil simpler.

Nevertheless, I recall the 'unison' configuration file, and how it deals with
it, as that may be an interesting reference:

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases/stable/unison-manual.html#merge

Regards,
Lluís.
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