Can't use difftool to selectively revert changes

2014-02-25 Thread Robert Dailey
I have a branch called topic1 that is based on 'master'. For a particular file in my topic branch, I want to revert some changes by using my diff tool. I do this by comparing the original revision of the file with HEAD like so: $ git difftool $(git merge-base topic1 master) HEAD -- Path/SourceFile

Re: Can't use difftool to selectively revert changes

2014-02-25 Thread Robert Dailey
Sorry I'm going to go ahead and answer my own question: $ git difftool $(git merge-base topic1 master) -- Path/SourceFile.cpp I removed 'HEAD' from the command and now it picks up my changes and compares to my working copy version (which is actually what I wanted). I thought HEAD would point to m