git show commit in beyond compare

Question

I would like to see a specific commit in Beyond Compare or any other separate diff tool while viewing it via git show. I tried looking at help of git show/difftool/

Answer 1

Once you have a diff tool set up, like the awesome p4merge, you can do this:

git diff HEAD HEAD~1

Works like a charm.

Similarly if you want to see the commit before that, you can do:

git diff HEAD~1 HEAD~2