TortoiseHg Visual Diff Context Menu

[Steve Borho]

On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 13:58 -0700, behofmann wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> I tried executing hg.exe bcomp <filename> from a command prompt and it just
> returns the prompt.  It behaves the same as the Visual Diff context menu. 
> Since you're not familiar with Beyond Compare 3, do you have a working setup
> for the Visual Diff Context Menu that you use?  Could you share your
> Mercurial.ini as an example?  I'm new to TortoiseHg and want to make sure
> I'm setting up my Mercurial.ini correctly.

TortoiseHg is preconfigured to use kdiff3 (included) as the visual diff
tool.  It should "just work" after install without any changes required
to the system Mercurial.ini.

> Another question, is it possible to have the revision count be specific to a
> file change instead of keeping a running count of all changes?  For example:
> 
> file1.jsp ==> Revision 0, 1
> file2.jsp ==> Revision 2, 3
> file3.jsp ==> Revision 5
> 
> Would prefer:
> file1.jsp ==> Revision 0, 1
> file2.jsp ==> Revision 0, 1
> file3.jsp ==> Revision 0

I'm afraid that's not how Mercurial works.  Hg does track file
revisions, but the number is only used internally and is not user
visible.

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Steve Borho