[PATCH] Fix meld.args in mergetools.rc: add -o $output

[Angel Ezquerra]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Völker Ronny <ronny.voelker at elaxy.de> wrote:
> Angel Ezquerra <angel.ezquerra at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I still do not understand why you need to use -o. On my brief tests the current configuration seems to work fine.
>
> You deliberately edited the  left pane (local) and saved it, right?
>
> I'm merging from the left pane (local) and the right pane (other) into the middle pane (base).
> The mentioned menu item "Changes->Merge all non-conflicting does exactly" the same (so this way of merging seems to be preferred by Meld).
> At the end, the content of the middle pane has to be saved.
> Without -o the middle pane is saved into the underlying file (base). This is a temporary file, created (and later ignored) by Mercurial
> So my changes are lost after closing Meld.
> With -o my changes (in the middle pane) are saved into $output, which is the file, mercurial is using as the result of the merge.
>
> Ronny

I see. In that case I think you also must change the label of the
center panel to make it clear that it is the merge panel, not the
base. When I read base I did not think of editing that panel.

BTW, I don't know if you noticed but we do bottom post on this mailing list.

Cheers,

Angel