# [PATCH] mention mergetool in gittutorial

1 messages from 2009-04-27 to 2009-04-27. Participants: Sitaram Chamarty.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/19085

## Sitaram Chamarty, 2009-04-27 14:16

Subject: [PATCH] mention mergetool in gittutorial
Message-ID: <20090427141616.GA10750@atc.tcs.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090427141616.GA10750%40atc.tcs.com

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This came up in IRC in some context, and pasky suggested it
might be useful to talk about mergetool in the tutorial.

 Documentation/gittutorial.txt |   11 +++++++++--
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
index c5d5596..0d2e75d 100644
--- a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
@@ -239,8 +239,15 @@ markers will be left in the problematic files showing the conflict;
 $ git diff
 ------------------------------------------------
 
-will show this.  Once you've edited the files to resolve the
-conflicts,
+will show this.  You can use your normal text editor to resolve the conflicts,
+or you can use linkgit:git-mergetool[1] to invoke any of a range of popular
+tools to help you do this.  For example:
+
+------------------------------------------------
+$ git mergetool --tool=meld
+------------------------------------------------
+
+Once you've edited the files to resolve the conflicts,
 
 ------------------------------------------------
 $ git commit -a
-- 
1.6.2.4

```