TortoiseHg Visual Diff Context Menu

[behofmann]

Steve,

Thanks for your reply.  I'm able to get Beyond Compare 3 to work by
selecting it as the external diff tool from the log.  It launches a command
window which then launches Beyond Compare with my selected files.  I assume
that is the expected behavior?

What I can't get to work is the Visual Diff on the TortoiseHg Context Menu
which you get when right-clicking on a file name.  Do you have to select two
files first then right-click on Visual Diff?  Am I doing something wrong
with this implementation?

Please let me know.

Thanks again for your help,

Brandon


Steve Borho wrote:
> 
> 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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