non-graphical merge tool

Dave S snidely.too at gmail.com
Thu May 15 02:07:35 UTC 2014


On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Michael Mossey <michaelmossey at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm working on Windows in a two-developer project, and the other guy is
> not an experienced programmer. If he runs "hg merge" I don't want it to pop
> him into kdiff3 as he probably won't understand it. I would rather that
> Mercurial leave conflicting merges in the file with merge marks so he can
> send it off to me to fix. How would I set Mercurial to do a non-graphical
> merge in the presence of conflicts, i.e. leave merge marks?
>
>
Maybe use the "internal:fail" merge-tool, and then hg resolve -l ?  (easily
done with a .bat or .sh file)

Another option would be to use hg merge --preview, but then you'd be
involved even for the no-conflict merges.

/dps
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