From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Aguilar Subject: Re: When i run git difftool, git did not use difftool.bc3.cmd,why? Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 04:08:05 -0700 Message-ID: References: <24cad567.da0.131a1ed237b.Coremail.sinojelly@163.com> <9c0c497.f7f.131a1fb4855.Coremail.sinojelly@163.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 8C148a) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: =?GB2312?Q? "Git=CC=D6=C2=DB=D7=E9=28=CE=DE=D0=EB=B6=A9=D4=C4=29" ?= To: jelly X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 08 13:13:10 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QqNlc-0008Qv-OP for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:13:09 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751582Ab1HHLNE (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2011 07:13:04 -0400 Received: from mail-iy0-f170.google.com ([209.85.210.170]:57141 "EHLO mail-iy0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751318Ab1HHLNB convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2011 07:13:01 -0400 Received: by iye16 with SMTP id 16so8830198iye.1 for ; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:13:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:message-id:cc:x-mailer:from:subject:date:to; bh=/zxgqkSBAnoqVj1EOPXVlY4kkp5W7txDxmOii0WXra8=; b=nAWQfDfAWFsTMW1vpGFnZuyzIDlYQOE7suaCQq97cI/q4Ia/c3RvCO0ibXkE0Rqkcl aOtuKPUU9V48lhiYqimb0zg9iRHCc1KKsOCyz+5DeSOg7tloXN+N/+Yt0P9C4jjlcSuu R+mPWTHGEonZ6Ng6hD1KJhin9A53I3WIxlds0= Received: by 10.42.97.134 with SMTP id o6mr293964icn.36.1312801692961; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:08:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.13] (208-106-56-2.static.dsltransport.net [208.106.56.2]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q13sm4160955ibi.60.2011.08.08.04.08.09 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:08:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9c0c497.f7f.131a1fb4855.Coremail.sinojelly@163.com> X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (8C148a) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Aug 6, 2011, at 7:03 PM, jelly wrote: >> When i run git difftool, git did not use difftool.bc3.cmd,why?>Even i write a wrong exe file name bcomp1.exe, git still use bcompare. > I found the reason. > because bc3 is a special name, git call bcompare internal.change the name bc3, it works fine. That's right. We have difftool..path for this use case. It lets you redefine the path to the tool (e.g. bcompare).