How do you make git diff use gitx --diff on OS X

Question

Gitx has a great diff viewer, how do I make git automatically pipe git diff whatever into gitx?

I\'ve tried to set git config diff.external to a shell scrip

Answer 1

I'm using this script which I have named git-diffx and put in my path:

#!/bin/bash

result=$(git diff $@)

if [ "$result" ]; then
   echo "$result" | gitx
fi

Then instead of git diff ..., you call git diffx ....