u2468 Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 Regardless of how I set up a configuration for a third party diff tool, Plastic always uses its built in one. In the Branch explorer, I want to right click on a change set, select Diff Change Set and have it launch an external tool. How do I do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manu Posted February 24, 2015 Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 Hello! That diff operation is the embedded one, can't be changed. You are diffing Plastic SCM changesets, there's no external tools for that. What you can change is the diff tool used for diffing files (revisions): https://www.plasticscm.com/documentation/gui/plastic-scm-version-control-gui-guide.shtml#TheDifftoolsTab Setup your external tool as the first one to be used and the Plastic SCM client will launch that one. Same applies to the Merge operation and merge tools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
u2468 Posted February 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 Hello! That diff operation is the embedded one, can't be changed. You are diffing Plastic SCM changesets, there's no external tools for that. I can't begin to tell you how bad that is. No tool is an island unto itself. You need to change that. That is basic functionality Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
u2468 Posted February 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 Setup your external tool as the first one to be used and the Plastic SCM client will launch that one. That is also bad. You need to populate the right click menu so users can choose which diff tool they want to use. The way it is now, you are doing nothing short of asking the user to "re-configure" the tool everytime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manu Posted February 24, 2015 Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 Hi! thank you for the feedback. Please, if you want, include your ideas here so other users can vote them and we'll implement them. http://plasticscm.uservoice.com/forums/15467-general Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
u2468 Posted February 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 Hi! thank you for the feedback. Please, if you want, include your ideas here so other users can vote them and we'll implement them. http://plasticscm.uservoice.com/forums/15467-general Well, the top rated idea was posted on April 03, 2009. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manu Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 Hello u2468, Well, the top rated idea was posted onApril 03, 2009. So either your developers ignore that page or they don't remove the ideas after implementation. Which is it? I'm not sure why are you saying that. Look there's a total of 230 ideas added. 145 have been accomplished by the development team. 7 are currently under development 5 planned for incoming sprints. 47 declined. And finally 26 that are not processed yet. So the 68% of the ideas submitted by users (paying customers or not) are already done or almost there. I think it's not a bad ratio. The top rated idea you mentioned is the development of a public API which is something that must be done carefully and with a lot of time, is something we would love to have and we are working on it but please also understand that out internal roadmap consists in also developing new features that you won't find at any other SCM out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakubH Posted March 6, 2015 Report Share Posted March 6, 2015 Sorry to say that, but you counted that wrong. The total number of ideas is much higher. Those aprox. 230 ideas are only opened ideas – excluding 145 Completed issues and 47 Declined ones. So there are more than 200 ideas "unprocessed yet" and only about 37% of the ideas submitted by users are done or almost done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manu Posted March 6, 2015 Report Share Posted March 6, 2015 You are right Jakub I thought UserVoice was giving me the count value. Even with that I think it's a good ratio. It could be better of course but we do our best with the resources we have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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