David,
Thanks for the helpful reply.
As you suggested, I modified the .gitconfig file to have:
[difftool "test"]
cmd = echo \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\"
and ran
$ git difftool -t test
An example of the the resulting console output is:
C:/Users/Paul/AppData/Local/Temp/I8L2Bc_WriteTestParameters.vi
Commands/StartAutomatedTest/WriteTestParameters.vi
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: David Aguilar [mailto:dav...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 3:38 AM
To: Paul Lotz
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: difftool sends malformed path to exernal tool on Windows
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 03:14:01PM -0700, Paul Lotz wrote:
> From the Git Bash command line, I enter $ git difftool
>
> and type ‘y’ when the file I want to difference appears. Git
> correctly calls the external diff tool (LVCompare.exe), but the path
> for the remote file Git passes to that tool is malformed (e.g.,
> C:\/Users/Paul/AppData/Local/Temp/QCpqLa_calcLoadCellExcitation.vi).
> Obviously the \/ (backslash forwardslash) combination is incorrect.
If this is the case then difftool is not the only one with this problem.
We use the GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF mechanism to run difftool under "git diff", so it
may be that the paths are mangled by "git diff" itself.
I don't really know enough about msysgit to know for sure, though.
What do you see if you create a dummy tool which just does "echo"?
[difftool "test"]
cmd = echo \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\"
Then run:
$ git difftool -t test
> For the record, I have successfully made calls to LVCompare.exe
> manually from a Windows command prompt directly (without Git).
>
> The relevant portion of the .gitconfig file is:
> [diff]
> tool = "LVCompare"
> [difftool "LVCompare"]
> cmd = 'C:/Program Files (x86)/National Instruments/Shared/LabVIEW
> Compare/LVCompare.exe' \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\"
>
>
> For the record, the operating system is Windows 8.1.
Do any msysgit folks know whether GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF is a known issue?
--
David
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