Is possible to change the default diff tool in Mercurial?

Question

Every time I do an hg diff file.ext I end up using a console diff application. I would like to use Kdiff3 or WinMerge (I\'m using Windows).

Is there a way t

Answer 1

I've solved this using a Mercurial built-in extension... I just have to add the following lines to Mercurial.ini (on Mercurial folder):

[extensions]
hgext.extdiff=

[extdiff]
cmd.vdiff = kdiff3

When I want to use kdiff3 instead of diff I only have to use:

hg vdiff file.ext