Re: gitk external diff on Windows

From: Erik Cervin Edin <erik@cervined.in>
Date: Mar 4, 2022, 08:37 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+JQ7M8SF2cmZ7jagH-VdrZeR9Kfcw0GV=A1fpDeDubwJS1B8g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87fso0qphj.fsf@vps.thesusis.net>

On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 11:32 PM Phillip Susi <phill@thesusis.net> wrote:

>
> I'm running git version 2.28.0.windows.1 on Windows and trying to set it
> up to run winmerge as the external diff tool.

This is really a Git for Windows specific issue and more appropriately asked here https://groups.google.com/g/git-for-windows

But I'll give a quick response here.

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> contains "cmd /c" so I tried prefixing the path to the batch file with
> that, and instead I get an error that says:
>
> cmd /c C:/Program Files/WinMerge/winmerge.bat: command failed: couldn't
> execute "cmd \c C:\Program Files\WinMerge\winmerge.bat": no such file or
> directory.

I'm guessing you're running this from git bash, in which case try cmd //c C:/Program Files/WinMerge/winmerge.bat See https://stackoverflow.com/a/21907301

Basically a song and dance has to be done to work with Windows quirks.

If you're still having issues, it's best to follow up in the Git for Windows discussion group https://groups.google.com/g/git-for-windows