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From: R. Klomp <r.klomp@students.uu.nl>
Date: Sep 15, 2014, 15:10 UTC
Message-ID: <CAE8x=qXt4LH=0=7kX7CMz16m8rLn7rt6bkE3MBwoyr5y5VYD+w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140910000045.GA12644@gmail.com>

I couldn't find information about whether the -solo feature is available in all Beyond Compare versions. At the least I can say that it is available in version 3 for Windows, since that is the version that we're using.

This issue does not occur when using the normal difftool (command: git difftool), which is odd and indicates that something must be wrong in either Git or Beyond Compare.

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 2:00 AM, David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 04:36:49PM +0200, R. Klomp wrote:
>> Ok great! That indeed fixed the issue.
>> Although I still don't understand why it didn't work without -solo..
>> since it didn't work when no instance of Beyond Compare was running as
>> well.
>>
>> There must be something not quite right in either Git or Beyond Compare.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Jim Naslund <jnaslund@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Sep 8, 2014 7:39 AM, "R. Klomp" <r.klomp@students.uu.nl> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> It seems like there's a bug involving git difftool's -d flag and Beyond
>> >> Compare.
>> >>
>> >> When using the difftool Beyond Compare, git difftool <..> <..> -d
>> >> immidiatly shuts down once the diff tree has been created. Beyond
>> >> Compare successfully shows the files that differ.
>> >> However, since git difftool doesn't wait for Beyond Compare to shut
>> >> down, all temporary files are gone. Due to this it's impossible to
>> >> view changes made inside files using the -d flag.
>> >>
>> >> I haven't tested if this issue also happens with other difftools.
>> >>
>> >> I'm using the latest versions of both Beyond Compare 3 (3.3.12, Pro
>> >> Edition for Windows) and Git (1.9.4 for Windows).
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance for your help!
>> >
>> > I see the same behavior. For me it had something to do with the diff opening
>> > in a new tab in an existing window. Adding -solo to difftool.cmd will make
>> > beyond compare use a new window which fixes the issue for me.
>
> Interesting. Would it be worth changing difftool to use -solo by default, or
> are there any downsides to doing so?
>
> Is -solo a new feature that only exists in new versions of beyond compare?
> I would be okay saying that the user should use a fairly new version.
>
> Can we rely on -solo being available on all platforms?
> If so, I'd be okay with changing the default if there are no other downsides.
>
> The --dir-diff feature is not the only one that needs this blocking behavior.
> Does this issue also happen in the normal difftool mode without -d?
> --
> David