From: Sitaram Chamarty Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:16:16 GMT Subject: [PATCH] mention mergetool in gittutorial Message-ID: <20090427141616.GA10750@atc.tcs.com> --- This came up in IRC in some context, and pasky suggested it might be useful to talk about mergetool in the tutorial. Documentation/gittutorial.txt | 11 +++++++++-- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt index c5d5596..0d2e75d 100644 --- a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt @@ -239,8 +239,15 @@ markers will be left in the problematic files showing the conflict; $ git diff ------------------------------------------------ -will show this. Once you've edited the files to resolve the -conflicts, +will show this. You can use your normal text editor to resolve the conflicts, +or you can use linkgit:git-mergetool[1] to invoke any of a range of popular +tools to help you do this. For example: + +------------------------------------------------ +$ git mergetool --tool=meld +------------------------------------------------ + +Once you've edited the files to resolve the conflicts, ------------------------------------------------ $ git commit -a -- 1.6.2.4