external diff tools on windows

[Maritza Mendez]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net>wrote:

> Maritza Mendez пишет:
> > First to establish some credibility I am already successfully using
> > BeyondCompare with the extmerge plugin.  Works great!
>
> Why extmerge plugin? You're talking about diff, so I suppose you need (or
> you mean actually)
> difftools plugin. Hm?
>
> > Using BeyondCompare as an external diff tool seemed like it would be
> > even easier.  I just need an alias in my bazaar.conf:
> >
> > [ALIASES]
> > bc = diff --using 'C:\\Program\ Files\\Beyond\ Compare\ 3\\BComp.exe'
> >
> > I figured out that the escapes were necessary to get the command passed
> > back the way windows needs it.  Lousy windows paths!  :)
>
> No, it's a dumb shlex.split code! Bad bad shlex.split that suppose it's
> always working with unix paths.
>
> You can use "/" instead of "\"  as a workaround.
>
> > Then when I do
> >
> > bzr bc foo.cs
> >
> > As expected, I do get the GUI diff tool looking at the 'old' and 'new'
> > files which are apparently read-only in a temp directory.
> >
> > When I close Beyond COmpare (even if I do nothing else in
> > BeyondCompare), I get an error.  Here is the complete interaction:
> >
> > C:\Documents and Settings\martitza\Desktop\work>bzr bc foo.cs
> > === modified file 'foo.cs'
> > bzr: ERROR: [Error 32] The process cannot access the file because it is
> > being used by another process:
> > 'C:/docume~1/martitza/locals~1/temp/1/bzr-diff-sq3ypm'
> >
> > Why the error?
> >
> > I have not tried to use any other external diff command.
>
> Please, show the relevant part of .bzr.log to us.
> I suspect some code try to delete temporary file/directory while it's still
> open by your tool.
> Something like that. But without looking at .bzr.log it's just a guess.
>

Thanks.  I should have known that.  I will get the .bzr.log and post it
here.

-M
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