On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Michael Jay Lippert
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Adam Featherstone <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Use ctrl-click to select the second changeset in thg 2.x.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Adam
>>
>
> Thanks Adam. I think this doesn't quite have the same implications as
> previously.
>
> In particular selecting 1 changeset and then getting a right-click menu on
> another provided an order for the command, such that for a diff, it is from
> the selected changeset to the right-clicked changeset and if you want the
> opposite diff (just to help your mental model) you can swap which is
> selected and which is right-clicked on.
>
> For rebasing having the difference between the selection and which was
> right-clicked on was even more important, as it determines the source
> changeset and the target changeset for the rebase operation.
>
>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 1:57 AM, André Sintzoff <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 2011/6/17 Michael Jay Lippert <[email protected]>:
>>> > Hi,
>>> > I was just wondering if the was a plan to restore the operations which
>>> > required selecting 2 changesets to TortoiseHg 2.x?
>>> >
>>> > In TortoiseHg 1.x in the explorer you left click select one changeset
>>> > and
>>> > then right-click on another, giving you a context menu with options
>>> > such as:
>>> > Diff with selected
>>> > Bundle from here to selected...
>>> > Merge with...
>>> > Rebase on top of selected
>>> > Import from here to selected to MQ
>>> >
>>> > (and others, I've attempted to attach an image of the context menu I
>>> > see in
>>> > 1.1.10)
>>> >
>>> > I particularly miss the "Diff with selected" which gave a new window of
>>> > the
>>> > hg status rev1:rev2 which allowed you to see all the files, and by
>>> > selecting
>>> > a particular file, see the changes (hunks).
>>>
>>> After selecting two changesets, the contextual menu contains an item
>>> called Visual Diff...
>>>
>>> André
>>>
>>
>
> Thanks André,
> Visual diff isn't the same as the previous tortoisehg "Diff with selected"
> option. It just seems a heavy weight option (extracting both revisions to
> some temp location and executing your visual diff tool on those
> directories), which although sometimes what you want, isn't what I usually
> want.
>
> I really like the simple tool that let me visualize the output from hg
> status rev1:rev2, or from hg status rev2:rev1 depending on how I selected
> the 2 changesets. It also seems necessary to do rebase operations, which
> oddly is available when a single changeset is selected, but not when 2
> changesets are selected.
>
> So I'm still curious if there's any plan to eventually bring back this
> functionality in thg 2.x

I had plans to add a generic changeset browser that could also display
a revision range, but my time devoted to thg development has dropped
recently from an hours-per-day scale to an hours-per-month scale.  So
while I would like to see such a browser, it probably won't happen
until someone steps forward to work on it.

-- 
Steve Borho

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