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

[Angel Ezquerra]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Völker Ronny <ronny.voelker at elaxy.de> wrote:
>
> Angel Ezquerra <angel.ezquerra at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I just tried using meld (on windows) with TortoiseHg, using the
>>current meld configuration (i.e. without your patch). As far as I can
>>tell it seems to work fine. The only slightly weird thing is that you
>>must make (and save) your changes on the "local" panel.
>>
>>So is this really necessary? Probably I'm missing something...
>>
>>What I really don't like is the fact that the order of the diff panels
>>that meld shows is:
>>
>>local - base - other
>>
>>This makes it _very_ hard to tell the difference between local and
>>other. It would be nice if it could be turned around (i.e.
>>base-local-other). Or better yet, it would be nice if Meld could do a
>>proper "3-way merge" (with 4 panels) as KDiff3 does.
>>
>
> Steve Borho <steve at borho.org> wrote:
>>The Meld model is a lot closer to Araxis Merge than to KDiff3.
>>
>
> I agree with Steve. It looks closer to Araxis Merge, where the middle pane contains the base version and is at the same time the target of merge operations.
> The  'Merge mode'-example on http://meldmerge.org/features.html supports this view.
>
>>The way I would prefer for it to work would be for the center pane to be named "merged" and for the trivial changes from both local and other to be pre-applied to the >merge pane. As it is you have to do the trivial merges manually.

I agree with Steve. If the center panel is where the merge must
happen, it should be named something other than base, which means a
different thing, and it should contain the results of the merge.

> I'm using Meld 1.5.3 on Ubuntu12.04. It has a menu item Changes->Merge all non-conflicting, which does what you want. I found no way to trigger this behavior automatically at startup. Maybe the latest version has an option to do this.

I just checked the meld -h output and it does not seem to be a new
option for that. I could bring it up on the meld mailing list.

> Renaming the middle pane may be a good idea, but I think it should be consistent across all merge tools with the same model.
> Maybe the order of the panes should be consistent too (the order for Meld is local-base-other, the order for Araxis Merge is other-base-local ).
> Anyway, I think that's another change.

I still do not understand why you need to use -o. On my brief tests
the current configuration seems to work fine.

Cheers,

Angel