Git: configure patterns for difftool and mergetool

Question

In Mercurial, one can define a pattern for external diff and merge tools (so that they are called only for files matching the pattern specified):

[diff-patterns]         


        

Answer 1

You would use a merge driver in a gitattributes file.

See for instance "How do I tell git to always select my local version for conflicted merges on a specific file?"

*.ext merge=mymergetool

You can use patterns in a gitattributes file.