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Re: BUG Report: v12.0.0 "git difftool -d" fails with "fatal: cannot create directory at '': No such file or directory"

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Mar 2, 2017, 14:26 UTC
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Hi Mark,
On Thu, 2 Mar 2017, Mark Phillips wrote:
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> I am building git from source using gcc 4.8.5 on 64 bit linux.
> 
> I am sorry the log info is not very helpful, please tell me how to get
> more information about what is going wrong and I will collect the info
> for you!

Well, you could provide a Minimal, Complete and Verifiable Example (http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve): most likely, the error depends on particular features of your current HEAD, or environment variables. Because i do *not* get that error if I run `git difftool -d HEAD~`.

So it is not so much about collecting info as about distilling your use case into an example that allows other developers to reproduce the problem, and subsequently fix it.

Ciao, Johannes

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  1. Mark PhillipsMar 2, 2017
  2. Johannes SchindelinMar 2, 2017

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