# Unifying mergetool configuration between git and git-gui 2 messages from 2012-07-22 to 2012-07-23. Participants: Sebastian Schuberth, David Aguilar. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/31063 ## Sebastian Schuberth, 2012-07-22 14:22 Subject: Unifying mergetool configuration between git and git-gui Message-ID: <500C0C9F.1000709@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/500C0C9F.1000709%40gmail.com ``` Hi, I was about to add a configuration for yet another mergetool when I realized that git gui's mergetool.tcl pretty much duplicates git's mergetools/* configuration files. Can some one tell me why this is necessary? I would have expected git gui to simply rely on "git mergetool" to launch the mergetool. Or, in case that git gui needs to use a different tool than the one configured as mergetool, that mergetool.tcl somehow uses the configuration from mergetools/*. Thanks for any insights. -- Sebastian Schuberth ``` ## David Aguilar, 2012-07-23 02:00 Subject: Re: Unifying mergetool configuration between git and git-gui Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAJDDKr4aeDToxw177pBoZE5SW5hRoM3_xWi9oHLz0gmRkpVFTw%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <500C0C9F.1000709@gmail.com> ``` On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 7:22 AM, Sebastian Schuberth wrote: > Hi, > > I was about to add a configuration for yet another mergetool when I realized > that git gui's mergetool.tcl pretty much duplicates git's mergetools/* > configuration files. Can some one tell me why this is necessary? I would > have expected git gui to simply rely on "git mergetool" to launch the > mergetool. Or, in case that git gui needs to use a different tool than the > one configured as mergetool, that mergetool.tcl somehow uses the > configuration from mergetools/*. > > Thanks for any insights. I think the mergetool stuff in git-gui predates git-mergetool. Ditto the "external diff" stuff in gitk -- it predates git-difftool. It would be good to unify these so that the difftool/mergetool experience is consistent. As for how to have different diff/merge tools in GUI vs non-GUI modes -- we have 'diff.guitool' to override 'diff.tool' when "git difftool --gui" is used. We do not have an equivalent 'merge.guitool', but that would probably be the way to do it. -- David ```