From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2017 10:32:11 GMT
Subject: Re: mergetool and difftool inconsistency?
Message-ID: <20170203103211.fnwdbm7shxduj2pn@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170126025810.GA3020@arch-attack.localdomain>

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 06:58:10PM -0800, Denton Liu wrote:
> 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