# mergetool and difftool inconsistency?

2 messages from 2017-01-26 to 2017-02-03. Participants: Denton Liu, David Aguilar.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/44976

## Denton Liu, 2017-01-26 02:58

Subject: mergetool and difftool inconsistency?
Message-ID: <20170126025810.GA3020@arch-attack.localdomain>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20170126025810.GA3020%40arch-attack.localdomain

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Hello all,

I was wondering if there is any reason why 'git difftool' accepts the
'-g|--gui' whereas 'git mergetool' does not have an option to accept
that flag. Please let me know if this is intentional, otherwise I can
write up a patch to add the GUI flag to 'mergetool'.

Thanks!

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## David Aguilar, 2017-02-03 10:32

Subject: Re: mergetool and difftool inconsistency?
Message-ID: <20170203103211.fnwdbm7shxduj2pn@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20170203103211.fnwdbm7shxduj2pn%40gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <20170126025810.GA3020@arch-attack.localdomain>

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On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 06:58:10PM -0800, Denton Liu wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I was wondering if there is any reason why 'git difftool' accepts the
> '-g|--gui' whereas 'git mergetool' does not have an option to accept
> that flag. Please let me know if this is intentional, otherwise I can
> write up a patch to add the GUI flag to 'mergetool'.
> 
> Thanks!

Hello,

The difference was not intentional.  The "--gui" feature was
added to difftool because that's where the feature was
originally requested, but there's no reason why mergetool
couldn't have a similar option.

cheers,
-- 
David

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