Re: Adding Beyond Compare as a merge tool, was: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2011, #05; Wed, 23)

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Chris Packham <judge.packham@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> In linux it's bcompare, although BCompare is the eventual executable
>
> chrisp@laptop:~> rpm -q --filesbypkg bcompare
> bcompare                  /usr/bin/bcompare
> bcompare                  /usr/lib/beyondcompare/BCompare
>
> Unfortunately /usr/bin/bcompare is a little more involved than a symlink
> so for linux we need to call bcompare.

The real question is which one the end-users like git-mergetool--lib are
expected to call, and it looks like the "bcompare" in /usr/bin spelled in
lowercase is the one.  So shouldn't we be calling that, Sebastian?

And if we invoke lowercase "bcompare" on Windows, the system would do the
right thing, no?
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel Development]     [Gcc Help]     [IETF Annouce]     [DCCP]     [Netdev]     [Networking]     [Security]     [V4L]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux SCSI]     [Fedora Users]