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Re: mergetool and difftool inconsistency?

From
David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 3, 2017, 10:32 UTC
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 06:58:10PM -0800, Denton Liu wrote:
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> Hello all,
> 
> I was wondering if there is any reason why 'git difftool' accepts the
> '-g|--gui' whereas 'git mergetool' does not have an option to accept
> that flag. Please let me know if this is intentional, otherwise I can
> write up a patch to add the GUI flag to 'mergetool'.
> 
> Thanks!
Hello,

The difference was not intentional. The "--gui" feature was added to difftool because that's where the feature was originally requested, but there's no reason why mergetool couldn't have a similar option.

cheers,
-- 
David
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