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TortoiseHG Workbench resolving conflicts Windows 8 elevation issue

When attempting to use "Tool Resolve" within the TortoiseHG Workbench on a file using Windows 8

I get the following error

abort: The requested operation requires elevation

The auto generated command looks like this

% hg resolve --repository "C:\MecurialRepositories\Test" -- "C:\MecurialRepositories\Test\Web.config"

Not really sure why this is the case, it works with TortoiseGit on the same machine. I've tried to uninstall/reinstall and registry clean but it looks like there are additional permissions I need to set.

Solution

  • The diff tool wouldn't work for me from TortoiseHG on Windows 8 unless I ran TortoiseHG using "run as administrator". I found that updating KDiff to version 0.9.98 removed the need for privilege elevation.