On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 06:58:10PM -0800, Denton Liu wrote: > Hello all, > > I was wondering if there is any reason why 'git difftool' accepts the > '-g|--gui' whereas 'git mergetool' does not have an option to accept > that flag. Please let me know if this is intentional, otherwise I can > write up a patch to add the GUI flag to 'mergetool'. > > Thanks! Hello, The difference was not intentional. The "--gui" feature was added to difftool because that's where the feature was originally requested, but there's no reason why mergetool couldn't have a similar option. cheers, -- David