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Re: git-difftool

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Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 17, 2009, 14:17 UTC
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On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:47 AM, enso <a.calhoon@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Ping Yin wrote:
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>> Thanks. With GIT_PAGER="" it works now.
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> Personally, I didn't like having to screw around with environment variables
> directly to get vimdiff to work. So I did the following:
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> 1) Made a simple diff script gitvimdiff.sh:
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> #!/bin/env sh
> vimdiff "$2" "$5"
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> 2) git config --global diff.external ~/path/to/gitvimdiff.sh
> 3) git config --global pager.diff ""
>
I am not aware of these configurations, thanks.
What i current do is to use an alias to use vimdiff for diff
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