How to find the diffrence between two directory using byondcompare or kdiff exe

Question

Hi all, i have a local and remote repository and have to find the difference between them by using byond compare or kdiff. i made changes in hgrc as well mercurial.ini file as below.

[extensions] hgext.extdiff=

[extdiff] cmd.bc3diff = C:\Program Files\Beyond Compare 3\BCompare.exe opts.bc3diff = -f '+next' '+execute "DirDiff ".argv(0)." ".argv(1)'

and tried in command prompt hg bc3diff source directory remote directory

but got abort source directory not under root......

please help me how could i solve above problem.

thanks,

Answer 1

Mercurial operates on local repositories, and the diff and extdiff commands compare two different revisions in the same local repository (or the local working dir). The only built-in commands that compare local revisions to remote are incoming and outgoing (with optional --patch), but they don't launch external viewers.

You can use the rdiff extension to compare a local revision to a remote repo revision, but it doesn't seem to launch external tools.

The right/normal way to do this is to clone/pull both repos into one new clone and do local v. local comparisons there.