From: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 10:58:56 GMT
Subject: 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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On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 10:09, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

>> 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?

Yes and yes, I'll update my patch accordingly.

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Sebastian Schuberth