Hi James, On 27/03/20 11:53AM, James Yeoman wrote: > gitk and git-gui are both not respecting git config. > > When I set the diff.algorithm global config to patience, the command > line git respects the config. However, both gitk and git-gui don't. > When I use "git status -vv" to get a diff of the working directory, > the diff produced respects the algorithm choice. The diff of the > working directory in gitk and git-gui both still use the default diff > algorithm, rather than the algorithm from the config. Thanks for reporting. Can you please send steps to produce a simple scenario where the diff from two algorithms is different so I can test why git-gui is not respecting the config. Make them as minimal as possible. Also, +Cc Paul, the gitk maintainer. -- Regards, Pratyush Yadav