OK, so what can we do next? Paul -----Original Message----- From: Paul Lotz [mailto:plotz@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 9:44 AM To: 'David Aguilar' Cc: 'git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: RE: difftool sends malformed path to exernal tool on Windows David, Thanks for the helpful reply. As you suggested, I modified the .gitconfig file to have: [difftool "test"] cmd = echo \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\" and ran $ git difftool -t test An example of the the resulting console output is: C:/Users/Paul/AppData/Local/Temp/I8L2Bc_WriteTestParameters.vi Commands/StartAutomatedTest/WriteTestParameters.vi Paul -----Original Message----- From: David Aguilar [mailto:davvid@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 3:38 AM To: Paul Lotz Cc: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: difftool sends malformed path to exernal tool on Windows On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 03:14:01PM -0700, Paul Lotz wrote: > From the Git Bash command line, I enter $ git difftool > > and type ‘y’ when the file I want to difference appears. Git > correctly calls the external diff tool (LVCompare.exe), but the path > for the remote file Git passes to that tool is malformed (e.g., > C:\/Users/Paul/AppData/Local/Temp/QCpqLa_calcLoadCellExcitation.vi). > Obviously the \/ (backslash forwardslash) combination is incorrect. If this is the case then difftool is not the only one with this problem. We use the GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF mechanism to run difftool under "git diff", so it may be that the paths are mangled by "git diff" itself. I don't really know enough about msysgit to know for sure, though. What do you see if you create a dummy tool which just does "echo"? [difftool "test"] cmd = echo \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\" Then run: $ git difftool -t test > For the record, I have successfully made calls to LVCompare.exe > manually from a Windows command prompt directly (without Git). > > The relevant portion of the .gitconfig file is: > [diff] > tool = "LVCompare" > [difftool "LVCompare"] > cmd = 'C:/Program Files (x86)/National Instruments/Shared/LabVIEW > Compare/LVCompare.exe' \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\" > > > For the record, the operating system is Windows 8.1. Do any msysgit folks know whether GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF is a known issue? -- David -- 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