From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:08:05 GMT
Subject: Re: When i run git difftool, git did not use difftool.bc3.cmd,why?
Message-ID: <EC90E9C8-3745-4E39-9627-945CDC7DD199@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9c0c497.f7f.131a1fb4855.Coremail.sinojelly@163.com>

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).