Re: git-difftool

From: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Date: Jan 2, 2009, 00:13 UTC
Message-ID: <200901020113.32082.markus.heidelberg@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <vpq8wpux61c.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy, 01.01.2009:

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> "David Aguilar" <davvid@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hmm... in theory, yes, but in practice, no.
> > xxdiff is too gimp to handle what 'git diff' hands it =)
> 
> As done with "vimdiff" in another message, simply write a one-liner
> wrapper script that calls xxdiff $2 $3, and call this wrapper script.

This works with GUI tools, but not with console tools. GVim works, Vim
doesn't.
And invoking
    git difftool
is by far more convenient than
    GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF=vimdiff git diff

Markus