[PATCH 5 of 5] Change mergetools.rc to not use kdiff3 --auto option

Mads Kiilerich mads at kiilerich.com
Mon Oct 6 19:07:22 CDT 2008


Matt Mackall wrote, On 10/06/2008 10:22 PM:
> On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 15:01 +0200, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
>   
>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com>
>> # Date 1223296885 -7200
>> # Node ID 6d73ada3299b2c27d8a4b39b76c5a5d5bf458c13
>> # Parent  be0868d7566c0323d92305e8b01fff43c6f7ce8a
>> Change mergetools.rc to not use kdiff3 --auto option
>>
>> Mercurial has the premerge setting which can be set to false to disable
>> automatic silent merge.
>>
>> kdiff3.args in the sample mergetools.rc used "--auto" which does (more or less)
>> the same as "premerge", so the premerge setting was effectively overruled.
>>
>> This is related to issue1295.
>>     
>
> Not convinced on this one. kdiff3 --auto will sometimes merge things
> that plain old merge won't. This has been the default behavior for
> kdiff3 with the old hgmerge script for years now.
>   


With "plain old merge" you mean simplemerge, right?

In that case, shouldn't simplemerge be improved? Or disabled?

/Mads

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