problem with extdiff extension

Mads Kiilerich mads at kiilerich.com
Tue Aug 23 21:22:18 UTC 2011


Matt Mackall wrote, On 08/23/2011 11:12 PM:
> On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 00:14 -0700, James Walker wrote:
>> On 8/22/11 10:33 AM, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
>>> Anyway, feel free to file it in the bugtracker - with an example of how
>>> it can be reproduced.
>>
>> Maybe it's more of a feature request, that Mercurial do a better job of
>> tracking files through moves and renames.
> It does a fine job. But generally speaking, there's no way to
> communicate that information to a third-party diff tool.

True, but it could make a content diff in the special and useful case 
where there is only one (copied/renamed) file involved - assuming the 
right option is specified.

/Mads



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