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 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
k around this issue, but how can this be? Paul -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

RE: difftool sends malformed path to exernal tool on Windows

2014-03-05 Thread Paul Lotz
before I do that. Thanks much! Paul -----Original Message- From: David Aguilar [mailto:dav...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 1:25 AM To: Paul Lotz Cc: 'Git Mailing List' Subject: Re: difftool sends malformed path to exernal tool on Windows On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 0

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 Bas

RE: difftool sends malformed path to exernal tool on Windows

2014-03-03 Thread Paul Lotz
stStat us_Before.ctl C:/LSST_TS/SystemSW/M2AADT/Typedefs/TestStatus.ctl Result: Error message with reference to C:\/Users/Paul/AppData/Local/Temp/Typedefs_TestStatus_Before.ctl [No difference.] Paul -Original Message- From: David Aguilar [mailto:dav...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, Mar

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 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 consol

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 f

RE: difftool sends malformed path to exernal tool on Windows

2014-02-24 Thread Paul Lotz
/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 exerna

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 to