I’d like to know the best/easiest way to get a visual diff of a file given two revisions in Mercurial. I.e., I’d like to visualize the difference between revision 3 and revision 12, etc.
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I’d like to know the best/easiest way to get a visual diff of a file given two revisions in Mercurial. I.e., I’d like to visualize the difference between revision 3 and revision 12, etc.
If by ‘visual’ you mean a text comparison you can do:
If you want a GUI tools you can easily configure and use the ExtDiff extension, which comes with Mercurial, and use:
where
yourdiffwas configured in yourhgrcfile.