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[PATCH] Update kdiff3 install location

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MGMichael Schindler via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 7, 2022, 11:17 UTC
Message-ID
<pull.1376.git.1665141449621.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
From: Michael Schindler <michael@compressconsult.com>

newer versions of kdiff3 for windows install the executable for windows in a /bin subfolder. This change changes the place where the executable is searched to the new location if not found in %PATH%

fetch a recent windows version from https://download.kde.org/stable/kdiff3/ to see.

Signed-off-by: Michael Schindler <michael.schindler@allianz.at>
---
    Update kdiff3
    
    newer versions of kdiff3 for windows install the executable for windows
    in a bin subfolder. This change changes the place where the executable
    is searched to the new location if not found in %PATH%
    
    fetch a recent windows version from
    https://download.kde.org/stable/kdiff3/ to see.
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1376%2Fmichaelcompressconsult%2Fkdiff3_win_moved-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1376/michaelcompressconsult/kdiff3_win_moved-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1376
 mergetools/kdiff3 | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mergetools/kdiff3 b/mergetools/kdiff3
index ee8b3a0570e..c26a9573815 100644
--- a/mergetools/kdiff3
+++ b/mergetools/kdiff3
@@ -39,6 +39,6 @@ translate_merge_tool_path() {
 	then
 		echo kdiff3
 	else
-		mergetool_find_win32_cmd "kdiff3.exe" "Kdiff3"
+		mergetool_find_win32_cmd "kdiff3.exe" "Kdiff3/bin"
 	fi
 }

base-commit: 3dcec76d9df911ed8321007b1d197c1a206dc164
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