Re: Running vimdiff in read-only mode with git-difftool?

[David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:01:02PM -0700, Nick Welch wrote:
> I'm running:
> 
> git difftool -y --tool=vimdiff -U99999 --patience
> 
> and I have the following in ~/.gitconfig:
> 
> [difftool "vimdiff"]
>     cmd = "vimdiff -R"

I forgot to mention a couple of things.


If you do change that to e.g. "myvimdiff" you'll need
the $LOCAL and $REMOTE params as well; probably something
like:

[difftool "myvimdiff"]
	cmd = vim -R -d -c wincmd l \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\"


$ git difftool -y -t myvimdiff


Secondly, git-difftool receives both the pre and post-image
and doesn't actually receive the output of git-diff, so passing
--patience unfortunately won't do what you're expecting it to
do.  Piping the output of git-diff to something like kompare(?)
is probably the only way to get the nice --patience result.

It'd be nice if all diff/merge tools supported the patience
diff algorithm but that's not the case right now.

-- 

	David