![]() ![]() ![]() $ git config –global ‘C:\Program Files\Perforce\p4merge.exe’ Thanks to these for Windows we can setup p4merge as our merge and diff tools using Git Shell (I’m using Git Bash) ![]() I’ll assume you have p4merge installed here in C:\Program Files\Perforce But why can’t you have it all on the same line? What am I missing?Īnd also, what is “mergetool”? is it yet another variable? and how does it differ from merge.tool? Set up a merge wrapper script named extMerge that calls your binary with all the arguments provided So why need two lines? Perhaps I’m not recalling enough of my shell programming or the translation fails over to Windows? The instructions say 'extMerge "$BASE" "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE" "$MERGED"' These are the two lines I get stuck on: $ git config -global merge.tool extMerge The journey to 3rd degree black belt starts with a single punch. Yes I know there are others, but for now, I’m going to follow these instructions. I’m going to assume you’ve installed p4merge. Let’s start by engaging in epic battle with the git-scm instructions. The mentor wizard person (because there’s always a mentor wizard person) would tell you, “Aren’t you strong enough to defeat the DragonLord?”Īs I debated whether I knew enough to write a tip about configuring your git diff and merge tools, I ask myself “Aren’t you strong enough to defeat the git diff merge config tool?!”įor today’s tip, I’m using the git-scm instructions and this translation for Windows ![]() At level 30, you couldn’t gain any more experience points. One of my favorite Nintendo NES games was Dragon Warrior. So let’s see what the Use Visual Studio link did by using these two commandsĪnd the `` line is the magic line I was hunting the Internet for. Back in the day, you’d have to add this to the miscellaneous project, but not sure how that all works today. the file in the last commit) vs the changed file Target (the one you changed in the working directory)īTW the reason why the tab is shown on the right side of the file tab channel in VS instead of the left is because this is a temporary file that isn’t listed Solution Explorer. Which will bring up a prompt asking you to confirm launching your external diff tool vsdiffmerge (the tool VS uses).Īnd now VS will launch and open with the diff tool showing the original Source (i.e. Suppose you have at least one commit and you’ve started making changes to that file in your working directory. Then for either difftool or mergetool or both click Use Visual Studio Go to Team Explorer – Settings – Git – Global Settings. Thanks again to Ed Thomson’s Git for Visual Studio O’Reilly course! I searched for a solid hour how to manually configure VS as your external diff and merge tool. You can do a `git add readme.txt` to add this file to staging.Īnd now we commit our merge commit via `git commit -m “merged readme”` Now we’ll see that we have changes in our working directory. When you go to merge into master, you’ll see a merge conflict.Ĭlean up your readme.txt in the bottom part of the screen (or however you want to use the merge tool). Suppose you have a file in one branch (mine is called readme) that contains a conflict. (Yeah that’s actually my hope for myself.)įirst, go to Team Explorer – Settings – Git – Global Settings and for Merge tool, click Use Visual Studio Hopefully you’re feeling a bit more confident when you see merge conflict now. In today’s tip, you’ll see how to do a merge when you do `git merge branch-name` and get into a merge conflict. In yesterday’s scenario, you saw how to use VS to do a diff. Hmm, I wonder what could possibly be my tip for the day after yesterday’s tip! ![]()
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