TortoiseHg with TortoiseSvn Diff

Question

I recently switched over from SVN to Hg. I used to use TortoiseSVN, and now I'm using TortoiseHg. One thing I really miss, though, are the TortoiseSVN style diffs; the Hg ones are just harder to read and understand.

Is there some way to tell TortoiseHg to use the TortoiseSVN diff tool?

Answer 1

Right Click -> TortoiseHg -> Global Settings -> TortoiseHg -> Visual Diff tool -> Choose TortoiseMerge

Answer 2

No idea why TortoiseHg doesn't come with this built in, because both TortoiseSVN and TortoiseGIT do.

So we have to somehow download TortoiseIDiff.exe from either project, add it to our TortoiseHg folder and add something along those lines into Mercurial.ini, which currently can be found under Windows Explorer's contextual menu (right mouse click) > TortoiseHg > Global Settings > Edit File:

[extdiff]
cmd.tortoisediff = C:\Program Files\TortoiseHg\TortoiseIDiff.exe
opts.tortoisediff = /left:"$parent" /lefttitle:"$plabel1" /right:"$child" /righttitle:"$clabel" /showinfo