Why TortoiseHg not show the "merge conflict"?

Question

Short version of the question: Since I already have TortoiseHg, I right clicked on that file trying to see the merge conflict visually, but there is no way to see it?

Details:

To make a simple case of merge conflict, I hg init a repo on Win 7, and then clone it to another folder.

Now, in one working directory, i added the line "the code is 123", committed.

And in the other folder, i did an "hg pull" and "hg update"

Now, I go back to the first folder, and change "123" to "123abc", and then do an "hg commit"

And then I go to the other folder and edit "123" to "123xyz" over there, and do an "hg commit", and when "hg push", it says it can't.

So I try to use any visual tool to see how the conflict is like, but ... TortoiseHg doesn't seem to have any option to do that?

Answer 1

There isn't a conflict yet. Same as svn or cvs you need to fetch changes into the second repository before you can commit back to the first and it's this that creates the conflict. In the second repository, you need to

1. hg pull to fetch the 123abc change from your first repository; this'll be created in repoistory 2 as a new branch
2. hg merge to merge the changes - now there's a conflict that you need to resolve
3. hg commit to commit the resolution of the conflict

and now you can hg push.