External diff/merge tools

[Philippe Lhoste]

On 09/04/2010 22:15, Gaetano wrote:
> I'm trying to configure bazaar to use an external diff/merge tool: KDiff3.
> I have been reading tutorials and examples and it seems that all I need to
> do is
>   - install KDiff3
>   - add it to the path
>   - modify bazaar.config adding the alias:
>       [ALIASES]
>       kdiff = diff --using c:/kdiff3/kdiff3.exe

I had a similar issue when I started with Bazaar. My tool of choice is 
WinMerge. I haven't it on the path...
After much experimentations, somebody put me on the track, and now I use 
the command:

[ALIASES]
wdiff = 'diff --using "C:/Program Files/_Text/WinMerge/WinMergeU.exe"'

Note the single quotes around the whole command!
I (no longer) use difftools and extmerge is another thing.
For the record, I use for the latter:

external_merge = C:/Program Files/_Text/Perforce Merge/p4merge.exe %b %o 
%t %r

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