Re: Mercurial subdirectory diff support

[Kai <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 5 August 2010 02:38, Geoffrey A. Washburn <washburn acm org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had been working on a project that kept in a subversion repository and I
> would frequently use "meld ." to curate my changes relative to the current
> directory.  Since then the project has migrated to Mercurial.  However, if I
> invoke "meld ." inside the Mercurial repository, meld will always start
> looking for changes from the root of the repository.  This wouldn't be so
> much of a problem if the repository wasn't huge and meld didn't waste
> several minutes scanning directories and files that are completely unrelated
> to my portion of the project.
>
> Ideally we will at some point split the repository, but in the meantime is
> there anything I can adjust in meld to get the same behavior I had with
> Subversion? Alternately, is this a feature that could be considered for a
> future release?

Unfortunately, there isn't a simple tweak to get this to work. It's
just missing functionality in our Mercurial support. If a patch were
to appear, it would certainly get a look. Otherwise, it's waiting for
someone to get time... feel free to file a bug though.

cheers,
Kai