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How to view Mercurial changeset changes using a GUI diff tool

We use both Examdiff and Kdiff3 to view Mercurial changes.

Just add this to .hgrc:

[extdiff]
cmd.kdiff3 =
cmd.examdiff = C:\Program Files\ExamDiff Pro\ExamDiff.exe

And then you can type hg examdiff or hg diff3 to see a complete diff of all your changes.

What I would like is to do the same to see a "before and after" of files for a given changeset that was checked in by someone else.

I know you can type hg log to see all changesets and then hg log -vprXX to see a text diff, but that's too hard for my GUI preferring eyes. Anyone know how to the equivalent with the GUI tools?

Solution

  • Can't use just use the -c option to extdiff?

    hg kdiff3 -c XX

    or 

    hg examdiff -c XX

    in your example?

    -c --change change made by revision

    from the hg help extdiff output.