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* [PATCH] mention mergetool in gittutorial
@ 2009-04-27 14:16 Sitaram Chamarty
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From: Sitaram Chamarty @ 2009-04-27 14:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
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---

This came up in IRC in some context, and pasky suggested it
might be useful to talk about mergetool in the tutorial.

 Documentation/gittutorial.txt |   11 +++++++++--
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
index c5d5596..0d2e75d 100644
--- a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
@@ -239,8 +239,15 @@ markers will be left in the problematic files showing the conflict;
 $ git diff
 ------------------------------------------------
 
-will show this.  Once you've edited the files to resolve the
-conflicts,
+will show this.  You can use your normal text editor to resolve the conflicts,
+or you can use linkgit:git-mergetool[1] to invoke any of a range of popular
+tools to help you do this.  For example:
+
+------------------------------------------------
+$ git mergetool --tool=meld
+------------------------------------------------
+
+Once you've edited the files to resolve the conflicts,
 
 ------------------------------------------------
 $ git commit -a
-- 
1.6.2.4

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