winmerge

I can get winmerge to show me diffs for modified file. But for new files, winmerge gives a dialog saying 'Left path is invalid!'. I want it to show the left pane as empty and right pane with the contents of the file. $ git difftool head^ newfile.txt winmerge Dialog: I'm on git version 2.8.2.windows.1 This is my git config for difftool: [diff] tool = winmerge [difftool] prompt = false [difftool "winmerge"] cmd = \"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\WinMerge\\WinMergeU.exe\" -e -ub -wl \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\" What am I missing? I could not find this exact workaround so I'm posting this. Hopefully, someone

Originally the question was "How do I configure WinMerge as the compare and merge tool for TFS". However, I am changing it because TehOne answered this more general form of the question. I would have though this would have been asked already on Stackoverflow. I found the answer elsewhere, but I am asking/answering here. It's now a community wiki. When I was looking for how to do this, I found this post to be invaluable: http://blogs.msdn.com/jmanning/articles/535573.aspx The long procedure is provided in a Rory Primrose blog posting The short answer is the argument list for compare is: /x /e

I'm using Git Extensions and it pre-installs and sets up KDiff as the diff tool to solve merge conflicts. I'm very fond of Winmerge though and would like to replace KDiff with Winmerge. In the Git Extensions settings, there are settings to change the Mergetool, but I can't seem to figure out what syntax I should use and why. There seem to be 4 variables: $BASE, $LOCAL, $REMOTE, $MERGED. It seems that I should pass these to WinMergeU.exe, but with which command line parameters? I've tried to search for this a few times, but there is no answer that actually seems to work. foxtrotZulu Overview

If I add C:\Program Files (x86)\WinMerge to the User PATH variable(by right click on computer -> advanced system settings -> environmental variables), once I open a new cmd shell WinmergeU.exe is not recognized. If I add that path to the System PATH variable, WinmergeU.exe is correctly recognized instead. I though there was no difference between User and System, beside the fact that if I set it on System all the users will see it, while the User PATH is local. Am I doing something wrong? EDIT 1: In the follow you can see first the case in which C:\Program Files (x86)\WinMerge is added to the

I'm trying to integrate WinMerge with Git as I've seen others done before on Windows 7 Ultimate. I've followed the following steps, but an error continues to show up when I do a git mergetool which defaults to vimdiff. Created a file called winmerge.sh in the root directory of git: C/Program Files (x86)/Git/ with: WinMergeU is the correct location. #!/bin/sh echo Launching WinMergeU.exe: $1 $2 "C:/Program Files (x86)/WinMerge/WinMergeU.exe" git /e /u /dl "Base" /dr "Mine" "$1" "$2" and used the following commands. git config --global diff.tool winmerge git config --global difftool.winmerge.cmd

Is there a way to use Winmerge inside of git to do Diffs? VonC Update June 2015, 6 years later: As detailed in " git mergetool winmerge ", a simple git config diff.tool winmerge will be enough. Git 2.5+ (Q2, 2015) is now aware of Winmerge as a diff or merge tool! Original answer (2009-2012) (msysgit, 1.6.5, DOS session) The first part (using winmerge) is described in " How do I view ‘git diff’ output with visual diff program? " C:\myGitRepo>git config --replace --global diff.tool winmerge C:\myGitRepo>git config --replace --global difftool.winmerge.cmd "winmerge.sh \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\"" C: