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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: "Jaakko Pääkkönen" <jaakko.t.paakkonen@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Windows Git will not start external diff at all
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 18:34:17 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1609061832380.129229@virtualbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADr93XDA3CdgGBqBJTdmCHg_ZzGhsBf5hwwORJaCNB-V7o+APg@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi Jaakko,

On Tue, 6 Sep 2016, Jaakko Pääkkönen wrote:

> I am using beyond compare, but it does not really matter which one
> because even I create a dummy script as a external diff program, it
> will not get called ever. Only internal diff is started.

Any chance you can come up with an MCVE [*1*] using a dummy script?

> 
> Re-installing git will not remove the problem. I am using the latest git
> 
> Any hints how I can debug git difftool?

Sure. First hint: set GIT_TRACE=1. Next hint: difftool is a shell script,
so you can modify it, say, by inserting a `set -x` which will trace the
commands that are called.

Ciao,
Johannes

Footnote *1*: http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve

      reply	other threads:[~2016-09-06 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-06 15:57 Windows Git will not start external diff at all Jaakko Pääkkönen
2016-09-06 16:34 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]

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