Hi,
My usual merge tool is vimdiff, with a little configuration so that it
shows only two panes instead of three (destination file on the left,
file from the other branch on the right, and if I need to compare either
with the common ancestor to see which chunks I want from each file, I
use a log viewer).
For Misc/NEWS, I have written a merge tool that opens Vim with the
destination file in a pane and a diff containing the changes on the
other branch in another pane. So instead of getting many diff hunks
between 3.2 and 3.3, I get the 3.3 NEWS on the left and a diff
corresponding to the 3.2 changes I’m merging on the right, so I can
copy-paste NEWS entries. There may be duplicates when merging again
after a push race, but it’s still convenient. It’s a shell script
hard-coded to use Vim; I consider these bugs and intend to fix them to
make it more widely useful.
I initially wrote this script to handle translation branches. If you
manage text and translations with Mercurial, say English content in the
default branch and a French translation in branch named 'fr', when you
change the English text and merge, a standard merge tool is nearly
useless, as the two files are near-completely different. With my tool,
you get the French file on the left and a diff of the English changes on
the right, and on you go.
Please help yourself, and don’t forget to look at the README for
configuration information: https://bitbucket.org/Merwok/scripts-hg
Ezio and I chatted a bit about his on IRC and he may try to write a
Python parser for Misc/NEWS in order to write a fully automated merge
tool.
Cheers
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