The only feature missing on tortoise merge is directory diffs, but i think the diff window could solve that. I think it is just a matter of how many users like tortoise merge, it might be useful to do a poll or something.
Everyone could install the visual diff tool of preference, kdiff3 is actually very easy to configure for mercurial as it is very popular and the manuals for the config file use it as an example. At work i use araxis merge by the way So if tortoisemerge is of smaller footprint an we make more people happy, it is the perfect choice. My vote is, well, i don't care, i use araxis merge and i could install kdiff3 if needed. Regards On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Steve Borho <st...@borho.org> wrote: > Hello folks, > > I've received unsolicited advice from a few users that they would > prefer if we packaged TortoiseMerge in lieu of Kdiff3. This is a > feasible choice as it is licensed under the GPL v2 and is available as > a separate statically linked executable. It's even a bit smaller than > Kdiff3. They seem to have similar feature sets. Kdiff3 probably has > an edge in features while TortoiseMerge is probably easier on the > eyes. TortoiseMerge is also _much_ more familiar for people moving > from TCVS or TSVN. > > Another reason I am considering this is the I've always felt a bit > guilty packing Kdiff3.exe all alone in our installer without all of > the other pieces one normally gets if you download and install it > yourself: shell integration, help text, etc. Our version is also > quite old (>2yr), since newer releases tripled in size I have chosen > not to update it. > > If you would like to try TortoiseMerge, you can download it from here: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/tortoisesvn/files/Tools/ > > Get the 1.6.4/TortoiseDiff-1.6.4.zip package. unzip it, then copy > TortoiseMerge.exe into your system path (the TortoiseHg install > directory is a handy place). If you have a recent unstable nightly > build, all you have to do after that is select 'tortoisemerge' from > the drop-down list for 'Visual Diff Command:' in the global settings > tool (on the TortoiseHg tab) and save. > > I'm curious what others think. > > -- > Steve Borho > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list > Tortoisehg-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list Tortoisehg-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
