Re: How to read 3-way differences in TortoiseMerge?

Robert Dailey wrote:

> Say we have a file named foo.cpp that has 3 commit revisions (In other
> words, I committed the file 3 times and each commit resulted in the
> corresponding revision number): 10 29 48
>
> When I do an update that gives me foo.cpp at revision 48, are you saying
> that it will diff the changes between 29 and 48 in the top-left pane? If
> this is so, why am I seeing changes that should only be showing up when
> I diff between 10 & 29?

No, it will show you (most likely) the diff between 10 & 48. Because it
will use the revision of the directory before the update, and that's
most likely your revision 10 if you haven't updated in between.
This feature of course only works 'good' if you update your working copy
  often.

Stefan

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