Show diff in external program

[Perry]

The built-in diff window is ok for simple files, but sometimes I'm diffing more complicated files and need a more powerful tool -- from the history explorer I'd like a right-click Diff With ...

Or, better (because it it looks like that right-click diff pulls down the files again every time), from the built-in simple diff viewer, where the files are already copied locally, Tools/Compare With ...

Optimally I'd like to preload the power-tools I want to have available for showing diffs here -- full command lines of course, as some of the options that I want sometimes require passing options on the command lines.

[KyleyHarris]

In the options under Diff/Merge you can override the exe used for diffing and merging, and all the commandline params. I use Beyond compare and it integrates reasonably well.

[Perry]

But, it depends what files I want to compare, what is the best way to diff them, so I optimally would like a way to pick which diff tool to use -- and of course it would be most convenient if the choice commandlines could be preloaded.

[Tonya]

This functionality has already been requested and is logged in our database as a feature request for a future release of Vault. I will add your "vote".

Tonya Nunn
SourceGear

[Perry]

Thank you.