From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:09:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Adding Beyond Compare as a merge tool, was: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2011, #05; Wed, 23)
Message-ID: <7vhbbp6dyh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D69E355.7010104@gmail.com>

Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> writes:

> 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?