Difftools plugin alternative

[Gordon Tyler]

The external tool execution with parameter substitution code could be refactored out into something that could be shared by mergetools and difftools. 



On 2011-09-09, at 10:48 AM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:

> On 09/09/2011 04:45 PM, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>> 
>>> * Would it be helpful to have the the external merge tool
>>> management module (bzr repo Revision 5632
>>> revid:pqm at pqm.ubuntu.com-20110125135932-0o8d07i3j1flp6ou) apply
>>> for diff --using and my --format=recursdiff? What is that module
>>> used for at all?
>> It doesn't seem so.  Tools that can perform merges aren't the same as
>> tools that do diffs.  For more info on that module, see its merge
>> proposal:
>> 
>> https://code.launchpad.net/~doxxx/bzr/mergetools/+merge/40923
> Perhaps some of the code for configuring these tools can be reused though.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jelmer
> 
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