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From: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web•de>
To: "Ping Yin" <pkufranky@gmail•com>
Cc: "Matthieu Moy" <Matthieu.Moy@imag•fr>,
	"David Aguilar" <davvid@gmail•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-difftool
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 01:04:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901020104.01522.markus.heidelberg@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46dff0320812312338i5a3ee0cem702a6b67ef76e48c@mail.gmail.com>

Ping Yin, 01.01.2009:
> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag•fr> wrote:
> > David Aguilar <davvid@gmail•com> writes:
> >
> >> The usual use case for this script is when you have either
> >> staged or unstaged changes and you'd like to see the changes
> >> in a side-by-side diff viewer (e.g. xxdiff, tkdiff, etc).
> >>
> >>       git difftool [<filename>*]
> >
> > Is it not a complex way of saying
> >
> >        GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF=xxdiff git diff
> 
> $ cat mydiff
> #!/bin/bash
> exec vimdiff $2 $5
> 
> then i run
> 
> $ GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF=mydiff  git diff
> 
> but it gives me the error
> Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal

Just the warning and everything else works? For me the display is
totally screwed up and the commands don't really work because of the
pager. I have to add GIT_PAGER="" to get it working.

Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-02  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-26  1:30 git-difftool David Aguilar
2008-12-31 16:04 ` git-difftool Matthieu Moy
2008-12-31 20:11   ` git-difftool David Aguilar
2008-12-31 21:20     ` git-difftool Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2009-01-01 17:58     ` git-difftool Matthieu Moy
2009-01-02  0:13       ` git-difftool Markus Heidelberg
2009-01-02 16:10         ` git-difftool Matthieu Moy
2009-01-02 17:39           ` git-difftool David Aguilar
2009-01-15 22:26             ` git-difftool Markus Heidelberg
2009-01-16  5:05               ` git-difftool David Aguilar
2009-01-01  7:38   ` git-difftool Ping Yin
2009-01-02  0:04     ` Markus Heidelberg [this message]
2009-01-02  1:59       ` git-difftool Ping Yin
2009-01-17  3:47         ` git-difftool enso
2009-01-17  4:41           ` git-difftool David Aguilar
2009-01-17 14:17           ` git-difftool Ping Yin

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