Usability: Diff and merge tool

[kennymusicman]

I'm only early on into my usage of PlasticSCM, but so far, it's looking really good. So I've got a usability request/suggestion (or point me in right way if it's already there) on the diff/merge tool.

It would be much quicker to be able to drag/drop files onto the diff tool -> even more so if it can open up into an empty 2panel view, ready for 2 files to be dropped onto it.

With this, then it could become my go-to diff tool..

Thoughts?

(ps: that's using the tool as a standalone diff tool, not integrated into any IDE etc)

[miller]

Kenny, hi,

a simple trick that I use to diff and merge tool drag&drop is to create two batch files on the desktop, call them, difftool.bat and mergetool.bat.

the content of the difftool batch:

cm diff "%1" "%2"

and the content of the 3way mergetool batch:

mergetool.exe -b="%1" -s="%2" -d="%3"

now, just highlight two files for diff operation drag and drop them into the diff batch!

same thing with the merge, highlight three files and drop them into the mergetool batch!

Of course the batch can be improved with checks etc., but I hope you get the simple yet efficient idea.

cheers,

Miller