* [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)
To: gitster, git
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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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