Mercurial - Difftastic Manual
Description: The official manual for difftastic, the syntactic differ

# Mercurial

Mercurial supports external diff tools with the Extdiff extension. Enable it by adding an entry to `extensions` in your `.hgrc`.

    [extensions]
    extdiff =

You can then run `hg extdiff -p difft` (assumes the `difft` binary is on your `$PATH`).

You can also define an alias to run difftastic with hg. Add the following to your `.hgrc` to run difftastic with `hg dft`.

    [extdiff]
    cmd.dft = difft
    opts.dft = --missing-as-empty

## hg log -p

Mercurial does not have a way of changing the default diff tool, at least to the author's knowledge.

If you just want to view the diff of the most recent commit, you can use the following.

    GIT_PAGER_IN_USE=1 hg dft -r .^ -r . | less

This is equivalent to `hg log -l 1 -p`, although it does not show the commit message.