Re:

["R. Klomp" <r.klomp@students.uu.nl>]

Ok great! That indeed fixed the issue.
Although I still don't understand why it didn't work without -solo..
since it didn't work when no instance of Beyond Compare was running as
well.

There must be something not quite right in either Git or Beyond Compare.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Jim Naslund <jnaslund@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 8, 2014 7:39 AM, "R. Klomp" <r.klomp@students.uu.nl> wrote:
>>
>> It seems like there's a bug involving git difftool's -d flag and Beyond
>> Compare.
>>
>> When using the difftool Beyond Compare, git difftool <..> <..> -d
>> immidiatly shuts down once the diff tree has been created. Beyond
>> Compare successfully shows the files that differ.
>> However, since git difftool doesn't wait for Beyond Compare to shut
>> down, all temporary files are gone. Due to this it's impossible to
>> view changes made inside files using the -d flag.
>>
>> I haven't tested if this issue also happens with other difftools.
>>
>> I'm using the latest versions of both Beyond Compare 3 (3.3.12, Pro
>> Edition for Windows) and Git (1.9.4 for Windows).
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
> I see the same behavior. For me it had something to do with the diff opening
> in a new tab in an existing window. Adding -solo to difftool.cmd will make
> beyond compare use a new window which fixes the issue for me.
>
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