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
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2016-09-06 15:57 Windows Git will not start external diff at all Jaakko Pääkkönen
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