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Re: Question: Getting 'git diff' to generate /usr/bin/diff output

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Nnorm@dad.org <norm@dad.org>
Date
Jul 19, 2016, 15:20 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
>A better method might be to use the `git difftool` command, e.g.
>
>git difftool -x diff
Something like:
git difftool --no-prompt --extcmd=diff
or like:
git difftool --no-prompt --extcmd="diff -b" "$@"
works great for me. Thank you very much indeed!
    Norman Shapiro
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