Re: Feature Freeze date for 8.4

Alvaro Herrera write:
> Marko Kreen escribió:
> 
>> As we seem discussing developement in general, there is one
>> obstacle in the way of individual use of DSCMs - context diff
>> format as only one accepted.  Both leading DSCMs - GIT and Mercurial
>> do not support it.
> 
> Hmm, in Subversion you can specify a separate diff command and args,
> which can be used to generate context diffs.  Is it not possible with
> git/Hg?

It's possible in Mercurial, too. There is a bundled extension (extdiff, 
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/ExtdiffExtension), which 
can do that. You can configure your own command aliases, e.g. "hg cdiff 
..." to do -c diffs.

Best Regards
Michael Paesold