Ping Yin, 01.01.2009: > On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > David Aguilar <davvid@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > >> The usual use case for this script is when you have either > >> staged or unstaged changes and you'd like to see the changes > >> in a side-by-side diff viewer (e.g. xxdiff, tkdiff, etc). > >> > >> git difftool [<filename>*] > > > > Is it not a complex way of saying > > > > GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF=xxdiff git diff > > $ cat mydiff > #!/bin/bash > exec vimdiff $2 $5 > > then i run > > $ GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF=mydiff git diff > > but it gives me the error > Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal Just the warning and everything else works? For me the display is totally screwed up and the commands don't really work because of the pager. I have to add GIT_PAGER="" to get it working. Markus -- 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