Steve Borho wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Greg Ward > <g...@gerg.ca> wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Steve Borho >> <st...@borho.org> wrote: >>> When 0.10 is launched, we need for the tortoisehg packages on Linux to >>> install contrib/mergetools.ini into the site-wide HGRCPATH (typically >>> something like /etc/mercurial) and probably renamed as >>> thgmergetools.rc so that the visual diff system can work "out of the >>> box'. >> >> Debian/Ubuntu and (I think) Fedora/Red Hat packages already install >> Mercurial's contrib/mergetools.rc to >> /etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/mergetools.rc, which works great. (Neal, can >> you confirm my claim about the Fedora package?) >> >> Is thg's mergetools.ini different from/better than hg's mergetools.rc? >> If so, why not push the improvements upstream to hg? If not, why not >> stick with what is already installed by most Unix/Linux distributors? > > Ours is a superset of Mercurial's. I plan to back-port the > differences to Mercurial, but it requires major hacking in extdiff and > it hasn't risen to the top of my TODO list. I'm holding out faint > hope that some Mercurial hacker will get addicted to the improvements > in thg 0.10 and back port them to extdiff for me. > > -- > Steve Borho If it's not compatible with plain hg, it can't be installed as /etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/mergetools.rc
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