On 04/01/2009, Steve Borho <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Douglas Philips <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  http://diffuse.sourceforge.net/
>>>
>>
>> Oh, it is at 0.2.x?
>> I'd think replacing kdiff3 would take a lot more mature tool than that.
>> I was able to sell Mercurial at work because of TortoiseHG. Losing kdiff3
>> for 0.2 of some unknown merge tool would make TortoiseHG look a lot
>> weaker...
>
>
> Kdiff3 is a better tool if it's installed separately, since if gives you
> documentation and context menu options for doing directory diffs, etc.  To
> me, it would make more sense to package a diff/merge tool that used the
> native GUI libraries and served all the needs of Mercurial and TortoiseHg.
> The default Mercurial.ini would still support kdiff3 (diffmerge, p4merge,
> etc) if the user has installed it.
>

I think that users should be allowed to pick the merge tool they want to
work with (I'm a fan of WinMerge - even though it only does 2-way-merge), so
in my mind the bundled merge tool should be a simple "just good enough"
application and the installer (or something similar) should autodetect the
merge tools already installed. I haven't looked into the details, but the
Mercurial merge tool configuration [1] could probably do most of this
integration.

Regards,
Peer


[1] http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/MergeToolConfiguration
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