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Re: [PATCH 7/8] mergetools: use the correct tool for Beyond Compare 3 on Windows

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Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
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Oct 15, 2011, 12:39 UTC
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Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> writes:
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>On 15.10.2011 07:50, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Hmm, does this only apply to Windows, or are there other platforms on
>> which BC3 supplies bcomp for the exact same reason? What I am trying to
>
>BC3 is only available for Linux and Windows, so it only applies to
>Windows currently.

And checking the linux distribution shows only a bcompare executable so testing for the presence of 'bcomp' will be fine.

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Message 16 of 21 in “Some patches from msysGit”
  1. 0/8 Some patches from msysGitPat Thoyts, Oct 14, 2011
  2. 1/8 t1020: disable the pwd test on MinGWPat Thoyts, Oct 14, 2011
  3. 2/8 t1402: Ignore a few cases that must fail due to DOS path expansionPat Thoyts, Oct 14, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 15, 2011
  5. Pat ThoytsOct 15, 2011
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 15, 2011
  7. 3/8 t9001: do not fail only due to CR/LF issuesPat Thoyts, Oct 14, 2011
  8. 4/8 git-svn: On MSYS, escape and quote SVN_SSH also if set by the userPat Thoyts, Oct 14, 2011
  9. 5/8 t9901: fix line-ending dependency on windowsPat Thoyts, Oct 14, 2011
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 15, 2011
  11. Pat ThoytsOct 15, 2011
  12. 6/8 t9300: do not run --cat-blob-fd related tests on MinGWPat Thoyts, Oct 14, 2011
  13. 7/8 mergetools: use the correct tool for Beyond Compare 3 on WindowsPat Thoyts, Oct 14, 2011
  14. Junio C HamanoOct 15, 2011
  15. Sebastian SchuberthOct 15, 2011
  16. Pat ThoytsOct 15, 2011
  17. Sebastian SchuberthOct 16, 2011
  18. Sebastian SchuberthOct 16, 2011
  19. Junio C HamanoOct 15, 2011
  20. Sebastian SchuberthOct 16, 2011
  21. 8/8 mingw: ensure sockets are initialized before calling gethostnamePat Thoyts, Oct 14, 2011

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