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Re: When i run git difftool, git did not use difftool.bc3.cmd,why?

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David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 8, 2011, 11:08 UTC
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On Aug 6, 2011, at 7:03 PM, jelly <sinojelly@163.com> wrote:
>> When i run git difftool, git did not use difftool.bc3.cmd,why?>Even i write a wrong exe file name bcomp1.exe, git still use bcompare.
> I found the reason.
> because bc3 is a special name, git call bcompare internal.change the name bc3, it works fine.
That's right. We have difftool.<tool>.path for this use case.  It lets you redefine the path to the tool (e.g. bcompare).
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