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Re: Adding Beyond Compare as a merge tool, was: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2011, #05; Wed, 23)

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Feb 27, 2011, 09:09 UTC
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Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> writes:
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> In linux it's bcompare, although BCompare is the eventual executable
>
> chrisp@laptop:~> rpm -q --filesbypkg bcompare
> bcompare                  /usr/bin/bcompare
> bcompare                  /usr/lib/beyondcompare/BCompare
>
> Unfortunately /usr/bin/bcompare is a little more involved than a symlink
> so for linux we need to call bcompare.

The real question is which one the end-users like git-mergetool--lib are expected to call, and it looks like the "bcompare" in /usr/bin spelled in lowercase is the one. So shouldn't we be calling that, Sebastian?

And if we invoke lowercase "bcompare" on Windows, the system would do the right thing, no?

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  2. ab/i18n (What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2011, #05; Wed, 23))Jonathan Nieder, Feb 23, 2011
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  26. Jonathan NiederFeb 24, 2011
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  31. Johannes SchindelinFeb 25, 2011
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  34. cross-compiling msys-1.0.dll, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2011, #05; Wed, 23)Johannes Schindelin, Feb 26, 2011
  35. Kirill SmelkovMar 12, 2011
  36. Johannes SchindelinMar 12, 2011
  37. Johannes SchindelinFeb 27, 2011
  38. Kirill SmelkovMar 12, 2011
  39. Adding Beyond Compare as a merge tool, was: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2011, #05; Wed, 23)Sebastian Schuberth, Feb 26, 2011
  40. Junio C HamanoFeb 26, 2011
  41. Sebastian SchuberthFeb 26, 2011
  42. Chris PackhamFeb 27, 2011
  43. Junio C HamanoFeb 27, 2011
  44. Sebastian SchuberthFeb 27, 2011
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