Subject: Re: git-difftool

From: Markus Heidelberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 01:04:01 +0100

Ping Yin, 01.01.2009:
> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Matthieu Moy <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > David Aguilar <[email-masked]> 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