git-difftool Questions

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I would like to know how to see as a file with the command git diff master origin/master in the terminal on Visual Studio Code. I did a git fetch from my remote repository, and now I want to see t...
Piglet asked 13/7, 2018 at 0:39

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Currently, I have VS Code configured to be my git difftool and git mergetool My ~\.gitconfig file looks like this: [user] email = [email protected] [merge] tool = vscode [mergetool "vsc...
Cattle asked 24/1, 2020 at 20:10

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In.gitconfig file I setup up the git diff as follows: [diff] tool = kdiff3 [difftool "kdiff3"] path = path_directory/kdiff3.app In this setting kdiff is not accessible and I get the following...
Ixion asked 15/11, 2015 at 16:59

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After git config --global interactive.diffFilter diff-highlight my .gitconfig: # This is Git's per-user configuration file. [user] name = Vitaly Zdanevich email = [email protected] [core] ...
Mighell asked 8/11, 2018 at 18:8

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I've recently installed a new diff tool (difftastic), which messes with my habit of copying diffs to clipboard (or to file) to send those: [diff] external = difft # As per https://difftastic.wilfr...
Gardener asked 2/8, 2022 at 9:32

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When calling git difftool in a repository, git compares the modified files in the local repository with their match in the remote. To do so, it creates a temporary file for the remote, sets the var...
Evvy asked 9/5, 2018 at 8:33

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I'd like to do a 3-way diff of a single file that exist in 2 different branches, that is, the last commit in each branch and also consider the common ancestor. I want to use an external tool that a...
Krol asked 10/10, 2014 at 14:3

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When doing a git diff, sometimes I want to use a different diff tool (like, for example, cmp, or a homebrew word-diff program I have in my own bin directory). Many diff-like programs have an option...
Munshi asked 16/6, 2021 at 21:29

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When trying to launch Beyond Compare using git, I get this error: The diff tool bc3 is not available as 'bcompare' fatal: external diff died, stopping at plugins/PushPlugin.m Set up diff tool: $ ...
Lemuellemuela asked 2/7, 2015 at 14:37

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I'm using git bash for Windows with Beyond & Compare as my difftool (but the same thing occures with any external difftool). I would like my terminal not to be waiting for the difftool to exit...
Bryant asked 23/9, 2016 at 4:41

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I've been following guides like these here and here on how to diff binaries in git - more specifically .odt files and microsoft word files. They have allowed me to $git diff <commit> on .odt...
Interval asked 4/12, 2015 at 22:1

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I want to use vsdiffmerge as git diff tool. And I set the .git/config below. [diff] tool = vsdiffmerge [difftool] prompt = true [difftool "vsdiffmerge"] cmd = \"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microso...
Vachel asked 9/11, 2017 at 2:19

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Per @VonC's answer in https://stackoverflow.com/a/56212234 in Git 2.22.0 (released 2019-06-08), a number of changes were made to the git difftool command regarding how its configuration is determin...
Kaufmann asked 19/6, 2019 at 21:8

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I configured DiffMerge for difftool and mergetool in git global configuration. I read that Visual Studio honors this settings of global git configuration. Here is my git config: git config --global...
Bleachers asked 15/10, 2017 at 9:50

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I'm not sure what's going on but I just set up my diff tool to be called by git difftool, yet the very first file difftool encounters is displayed in the standard diff manner - on the console with ...
Suanne asked 7/3, 2019 at 10:12

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When I type git diff, I want to view the output with my visual diff tool of choice (SourceGear "diffmerge" on Windows). How do I configure git to do this?
Nolan asked 31/10, 2008 at 22:55

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Is there a way to do a git diff between staged/unstaged changes with a remote branch say origin/branch1. Is there a similar option with git difftool? OR Is there a way to diff changes in my loca...
Basketwork asked 1/12, 2017 at 2:56

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I noticed that git difftool is very slow. An delay of about 1..2 seconds appears between each diff invocation. To benchmark it I have written a custom difftool command: #!/bin/sh echo $0 $1 $2 ...
Zusman asked 1/12, 2015 at 19:28

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The current Git-based project that I am working on, I am generally always in a sub-directory. Below is the output when I run the command git log --name-only from a sub-directory of the root of the...
Exoenzyme asked 3/5, 2017 at 3:45

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After installing KDiff3 for managing conflicts in git, still the default one is opening for me: Here is the configuration that mentioned in this answer: git config --global --add merge.tool kdi...
Momentarily asked 5/3, 2017 at 17:43

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I know we should use the commands "git mergetool" to resolve the conflicts and "git difftool" to compare the changes. But how do we set up SourceGear DiffMerge as github mergetool and difftool in g...
Seepage asked 16/2, 2017 at 19:50

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I'm currently setting up the Meld difftool to work in Babun using the following commands: git config --global diff.tool meld git config --global difftool.prompt false git config --global difftool....
Regenerator asked 2/2, 2017 at 11:52

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I've been following this guide here on how to diff Microsoft Word documents, but I ran into this error: Usage: /usr/bin/docx2txt.pl [infile.docx|-|-h] [outfile.txt|-] /usr/bin/docx2txt.pl < inf...
Relict asked 1/12, 2015 at 14:58

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I've made a huge mistake. I've configured git difftool to use vimdiff, and then I've executed a command that compares the entire repository: git difftool tag1 tag2 Now the difftool launches vim ...
Moazami asked 7/9, 2016 at 10:46

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After reading this, I configured git to use vimdiff as diff/merge tool by adding following lines to my ~/.gitconfig: [diff] tool = vimdiff [merge] tool = vimdiff [difftool] prompt = false [ali...
Rumormonger asked 30/3, 2016 at 15:3

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