xxdiff with mercurial

[Vadim Lebedev]

Martin Blais wrote:
> Hello Mercurial devs,
>
> I'm the author of xxdiff. I have switched to using Mercurial
> for some of my projects and I absolutely adore it. I have
> thus written a small Python wrapper script to set as the
> program to be run to resolve conflicts when merging. The
> script is called xx-hg-merge and can be found in the latest
> xxdiff snapshot, it behaves the way the Mercurial expects
> the graphical merge program to work (exit status, stores the
> result in the left filename). In addition, it invokes xxdiff
> in decision mode, and this case is exactly what decision
> mode was built to handle (you press "A" to accept the
> changes, "R" to reject them, and "M" to accept the
> selections).  Note that you will need to install xxdiff
> Python libs in order to use it (xxdiff comes with support to
> invoke it in various ways.)
>
> Below is an excerpt from the xxdiff documentation that
> explains how to setup a user's .hgrc to use my tool to do
> merging. I'm sure there are other extensions, if anyone
> knows how to do this better, please reply.
>
> Any comments appreciated. Thanks for making Mercurial!
>   
Martin
What would be the advantages of xxdiff over kdiff3?

Thaks