Re: difftool sends malformed path to exernal tool on Windows

2014-03-16 Thread David Aguilar
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Paul Lotz pl...@lsst.org wrote: David, I investigated further and found that \$LOCAL\ \$REMOTE\ return the remote and local files (reversed). (One can easily see this in my 2/28 e-mail.) Reversing these (\$REMOTE\ \$LOCAL\) does indeed reverse the output.

RE: difftool sends malformed path to exernal tool on Windows

2014-03-07 Thread Paul Lotz
-Original Message- From: Paul Lotz [mailto:pl...@lsst.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 3:28 PM To: 'David Aguilar' Cc: 'Git Mailing List' Subject: RE: difftool sends malformed path to exernal tool on Windows David, We did succeed in getting a script to work. The local Git guru started

Re: difftool sends malformed path to exernal tool on Windows

2014-03-05 Thread David Aguilar
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 04:24:15PM -0700, Paul Lotz wrote: David, OK, I did as you suggested, and the results were revealing. First, I replaced echo with cat. Result: The contents of both files appeared in the Git Bash Window. Then I tried calling LVCompare from the Git Bash and

RE: difftool sends malformed path to exernal tool on Windows

2014-03-05 Thread Paul Lotz
: Re: difftool sends malformed path to exernal tool on Windows On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 04:24:15PM -0700, Paul Lotz wrote: David, OK, I did as you suggested, and the results were revealing. First, I replaced echo with cat. Result: The contents of both files appeared in the Git Bash Window

RE: difftool sends malformed path to exernal tool on Windows

2014-03-03 Thread Paul Lotz
:\/Users/Paul/AppData/Local/Temp/Typedefs_TestStatus_Before.ctl [No difference.] Paul -Original Message- From: David Aguilar [mailto:dav...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 2, 2014 5:35 PM To: Paul Lotz Cc: Git Mailing List Subject: Re: difftool sends malformed path to exernal tool on Windows

Re: difftool sends malformed path to exernal tool on Windows

2014-03-02 Thread David Aguilar
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Paul Lotz pl...@lsst.org wrote: 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

RE: difftool sends malformed path to exernal tool on Windows

2014-02-28 Thread Paul Lotz
OK, so what can we do next? Paul -Original Message- From: Paul Lotz [mailto:pl...@lsst.org] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 9:44 AM To: 'David Aguilar' Cc: 'git@vger.kernel.org' Subject: RE: difftool sends malformed path to exernal tool on Windows David, Thanks for the helpful reply

RE: difftool sends malformed path to exernal tool on Windows

2014-02-24 Thread Paul Lotz
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

Re: difftool sends malformed path to exernal tool on Windows

2014-02-21 Thread David Aguilar
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