Re: Pro Git Book

[Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>]

Hey,

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:56 AM, David Aguilar<davvid@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good stuff,
> Thanks Scott.
>
> In http://progit.org/book/ch7-1.html we go through a
> lot of machinations to setup an external diff viewer.
>
> That might be a good time to introduce git-difftool, even if
> only to mention that the setup is much simpler when difftool is
> used.  It allows you to do without the wrapper scripts.
>
> $ p4=/Applications/p4.merge.app/Contents/MacOS/p4merge
> $ git config --global difftool.p4.cmd "$p4 \"\$LOCAL\" \"\$REMOTE\""
> $ git difftool -t p4
>
> $ git config --global diff.tool p4
> $ git difftool
>
> It's even easier if you use one of the several built-in tools,
> e.g. opendiff, kompare, meld, etc., since it requires no
> configuration.

That's a good point - I never actually covered that, it looks like.
I'll put that in the list of things to cover for the second edition :)

>
> Mentioning that it's a fairly new feature is probably important,
> too.  Hmm. I guess I should've send a patch ;-)

If you are interested in contributing and don't mind releasing the
rights to your contributions to also be published commercially under a
second edition in the future, please feel free to fork the project on
GitHub and send me a pull request for anything you add.  I've already
gotten errata in this manner, which is pretty cool. Otherwise I'll try
to get this in eventually.

Thanks,
Scott