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External Diff Tool

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ESEric Stegemoller <estegemoller@idmcomp.com>
Date
Jul 29, 2009, 20:16 UTC
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<4A70AE1F.7070004@idmcomp.com>
Hello,

First off I am using Git for windows. I am trying to configure git to use an external diff tool. I am nearly there. I have it launching the correct program when "git difftool testfile.txt" is invoked. However, it appears the file paths are not being passed. I suspect I may not be using the $LOCAL and $REMOTE variables correctly. Below is how I have configured things thus far. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

  git config --global diff.tool TestTool
  git config --global difftool.TestTool.cmd ""c:/TestTool/test.exe" 
"$LOCAL" "$REMOTE""
  git config --global difftool.prompt false

Thanks, Eric

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