How do I view 'git diff' output with my preferred diff tool/ viewer?

Question

When I type git diff, I want to view the output with my visual diff tool of choice (SourceGear \"diffmerge\" on Windows). How do I configure git to do this?

Answer 1

If you're doing this through cygwin, you may need to use cygpath:

$ git config difftool.bc3.cmd "git-diff-bcomp-wrapper.sh \$LOCAL \$REMOTE"
$ cat git-diff-bcomp-wrapper.sh
#!/bin/sh
"c:/Program Files (x86)/Beyond Compare 3/BComp.exe" `cygpath -w $1` `cygpath -w $2`