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From: norm@dad.org
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, norm@dad.org
Subject: Re: Question: Getting 'git diff' to generate /usr/bin/diff output
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 08:20:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201607191520.u6JFKUM3026844@shell1.rawbw.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Jul 2016 09:46:51 +0200." <alpine.DEB.2.20.1607170942580.28832@virtualbox>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
>A better method might be to use the `git difftool` command, e.g.
>
>git difftool -x diff

Something like:

git difftool --no-prompt --extcmd=diff

or like:

git difftool --no-prompt --extcmd="diff -b" "$@"

works great for me. Thank you very much indeed!

    Norman Shapiro

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-19 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-16 19:12 Question: Getting 'git diff' to generate /usr/bin/diff output norm
2016-07-16 20:47 ` Perry Hutchison
2016-07-17  7:46   ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-19 15:20     ` norm [this message]
2016-07-17 12:18 ` René Scharfe
2016-07-17 17:26   ` norm
2016-07-18  7:23     ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-18  9:19       ` [PATCH] pager: disable color when pager is "more" Eric Wong
2016-07-18 13:16         ` Jeff King
2016-07-18 17:19           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-18 18:58             ` Jeff King
2016-07-19  2:37             ` Eric Wong

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