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binary difftool=M圜ompare (changed diff= to difftool=) with no luck. binary diff=M圜ompare in my gitattributes file. cmd file is just: "C:\\M圜ompare.exe" %5 %2 Hope this helps! let us know your thoughts in the comments below.Currently, my global config file looks like this: # Differencing ConfigurationĬommand = \"C:\\Users\\\\.gitdiffdrivers\\M圜ompare.cmd\" #This just tries to pass %5 and %2 to the same executable as the difftool entryĬmd = \"C:\\Program Files\\WinMerge\\WinMergeU.exe\" -e -u -dl \"Old $BASE\" -dr \"New $BASE\" \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\"Ĭmd = \"C:\\\\M圜ompare.exe\" \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\" ) so you can invoke the merge tool from everywhere and have visual studio handle everything. If visual studio is your tool of choice, i simply suggest you configure it globally (file named SourceTree does not allow the selection of different Diff-Tools based on file extensions by default. the net result is similar to what i suggested in my old post, vs just adds the six sections for diff and merge in the config file. To see the changes in an eap(x) file, click on the little cog in the bottom right of the SourceTree UI and select 'External Diff': Utilization of LemonTree in Conjunction with other Diff Tools. if you receive further conflicts, you do not need to wait for vs to reopen it with the gitīut if you really want to configure vs as diff and merge tool, if you press "use visual studio" button ( If you configured instead vs as diff and tool, you can simply issue a gitĬommand and everything will be done automatically without any user intervention.īut to be honest, the latest vs git integration is really good and it is surely better to manually open the local repository.Īs an example, if you are doing a rebase from the command-line and you got conflicts, it is better to manually open vs, solve the conflict, and then continue to rebase the operation inside vs.
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Go to the team explorer changes pane to start resolving conflicts if you got a conflict during an operation started from any other tool (gui or command line), the procedure is:įrom vs team explorer, localize the local git repository and open it Is useful only if you are operating with some other tool or with the command line. in your source tree, and navigate to their locations in the repository. This happens because when you open a git repository, visual studio monitors the status of the repository and, if some operation has unresolved conflicts, it shows the situation to the user without the need to do anything To find out more about configuring external diff and merge utilities for use. Git diff and merge section as saved from visual studio 2019 preview
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the rationale behind this choice is that if you are inside a tool (like vs) that has full support for diff and merge, the tool will automatically present you with diff and merge capabilities without checking repo configuration. If you are inside visual studio, it will handle diff and merge automatically, even if it is not configured as diff or merge tool. If you have a conflict during merge or rebase, visual studio will automatically show conflicts and guide you during merging. if you use only visual studio, these settings are not so useful Merge and diff configurations are typical settings that are made at the user level and not for each individual repositoryĪs you can see, in figure 3, no diff or merge tool was set for the current repository this means that it will use the default one for the user (in my situation is none). If you open the repository settings, usually, you find that no specific diff and merge tool is set. Settings pane contains a specific section for git where you can configure settings for the current repository or global settings that are valid for all repositories of the current user. Git repository settings inside visual studio team explorerĭiff and merge tool configuration inside visual studio. I tried (see this help page) sudo ln -s /Developer/usr/bin/opendiff /usr/bin/opendiff but it did not work (I got the message ln: /usr/bin/opendiff: File exists ). If you use visual studio 2017 or greater, you can simply go to team explorer and open settings of the repository. That post was written when visual studio 2012 was the latest version and the integration with git was still really young, made with an external plugin made by microsoft and with really basic support. Is still read by people that found it useful, but it is now really really old and needs to be updated.
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How to configure diff and merge tool in visual studio git tools