TortoiseHg Visual Diff Context Menu

[Steve Borho]

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 5:12 PM, behofmann <behofmann at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just installed TortoiseHg 0.7.3 with Mercurial 1.2.1 on Windows XP.  I
> already know that TortoiseHg won't work with Windows Vista 64-bit.  Does
> anyone know when it will be available?  I tried using Windows Explorer
> 32-bit, but it hangs and then crashes everytime.

http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/stable/wiki/RoadMap

> On Windows XP, I configured Beyond Compare 3 in the Mercurial.ini and it
> launches when selecting file revisions from the log, but the Visual Diff on
> the Context Menu doesn't work.  Does anyone know why?  I configured the
> global and repository settings 3-way merge and visual diff command to use
> Beyond Compare 3.

Is this a regression, or is this the first time you've tried it?

There's two common problems with external diff tools:
1) they need to not fork a separate process when launched
2) they need to be able to perform directory diffs

Your problems seem to be related to #2.  Perhaps this link is useful:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/323521/using-mercurial-and-beyond-compare-3bc3-as-the-diff-tool-help-needed

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Steve Borho