On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 05:22:22PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > * "git difftool" allows the user to write into the temporary files > being shown; if the user makes changes to the working tree at the > same time, one of the changes has to be lost in such a case, but it > tells the user what happened and refrains from overwriting the copy > in the working tree. This feels slightly misleading to me, perhaps something like this would be clearer? "git difftool" allows the user to write into the temporary files being shown; if the user makes changes to the working tree at the same time, it now refrains from overwriting the copy in the working tree and leaves the temporary file so that changes can be merged manually. -- 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