Under Windows vimdiff and gvimdiff are not available as symbolic links, but as batch files vimdiff.bat and gvimdiff.bat. These files weren't found by 'type vimdiff' which led to the following error: The merge tool vimdiff is not available as 'vimdiff' Even if they were found, it wouldn't work to invoke these batch files from git-mergetool. To solve this, use vim and gvim (vim.exe and gvim.exe) and pass the -d command line switch over to them. Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@xxxxxx> --- This patch goes on top of the current difftool/mergetool patches from David. This is 'da/difftool' in the current 'pu' and in addition: [PATCH] mergetool-lib: refactor run_mergetool and check_unchanged [PATCH] mergetool-lib: specialize opendiff options when in diff mode git-mergetool--lib.sh | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-mergetool--lib.sh b/git-mergetool--lib.sh index b8566b2..6f0e8f7 100644 --- a/git-mergetool--lib.sh +++ b/git-mergetool--lib.sh @@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ get_merge_tool_path () { path="$1" if test -z "$2"; then case "$1" in + vimdiff) + path=vim + ;; + gvimdiff) + path=gvim + ;; emerge) path=emacs ;; @@ -142,19 +148,19 @@ run_mergetool () { vimdiff) if merge_mode; then touch "$BACKUP" - "$merge_tool_path" -c "wincmd l" "$LOCAL" "$MERGED" "$REMOTE" + "$merge_tool_path" -d -c "wincmd l" "$LOCAL" "$MERGED" "$REMOTE" check_unchanged else - "$merge_tool_path" -c "wincmd l" "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE" + "$merge_tool_path" -d -c "wincmd l" "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE" fi ;; gvimdiff) if merge_mode; then touch "$BACKUP" - "$merge_tool_path" -c "wincmd l" -f "$LOCAL" "$MERGED" "$REMOTE" + "$merge_tool_path" -d -c "wincmd l" -f "$LOCAL" "$MERGED" "$REMOTE" check_unchanged else - "$merge_tool_path" -c "wincmd l" -f "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE" + "$merge_tool_path" -d -c "wincmd l" -f "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE" fi ;; xxdiff) -- 1.6.2.2.428.gea44ab -- 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