Diff merge git windows

Active 2 years ago. Viewed 22k times. So what's the trick to make this work? Related post - How to configure a diff tool in Git in general. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. In your command prompt, try: git config --global diff. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Kenny Trytek Kenny Trytek 3 3 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. That's also what you get when you enter the command git config --global diff.

Having done this, i conf'd it like this: git config --global diff. Someguy Someguy 91 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. In this article, we've compiled a short list that helps you get an overview of the best diff tools on Windows. Being free and open source , Meld is a very popular tool on Windows it's also available for Linux. It supports three-way comparing and merging and lets you edit files directly from the comparison view.

Apart from diffing files , Meld also supports comparison of folders. It goes well beyond pun intended diffing simple text and also allows comparing PDF, Excel and image files. The "Pro" version also includes a solid three-way merge. Just like Beyond Compare, Araxis Merge supports more than just text and image files.

It comes in standard and professional editions, and for people working on both Windows and macOS, it's good to know that a single license is valid for both platforms.

Another free and open source tool answers to the name of KDiff3. The project hasn't seen many updates in recent years though you may be able to find more recent releases through this page , but it remains a solid diff and merge tool that should satisfy basic needs.

Thank you man!! WinMerge was supposed to be a two-way diff pending WinMerge3 and not a three-way diff as git require. I tried the diff settings above, but they didn't work for me. It was the path to winmerge that was not right syntactically. After trying a dozen combinations or so, I finally landed on one that worked. I'm sure there is a version of the Windows long file name form that works, but I have stopped searching now. Tip: running this command would sometimes help me know if my path was not formatted correctly.

Warning : This is right for diffs, but this will burn you if you use it for merges! I used this and had to redo my merge changes. Thanks a lot CAPeddle!! It's the only one working with Visual Studio and my winmerge 2. Additional thing to check: file MySolution. Skip to content. Sign in Sign up. Instantly share code, notes, and snippets. Useful for commands like git show that show the patch by default, or to cancel the effect of --patch.

Implies --patch. Specify the character used to indicate new, old or context lines in the generated patch. Enable the heuristic that shifts diff hunk boundaries to make patches easier to read. This is the default. If a line exists in both the source and destination, exists only once, and starts with this text, this algorithm attempts to prevent it from appearing as a deletion or addition in the output.

It uses the "patience diff" algorithm internally. For instance, if you configured the diff. Generate a diffstat. By default, as much space as necessary will be used for the filename part, and the rest for the graph part.

The information is put between the filename part and the graph part. Implies --stat. Similar to --stat , but shows number of added and deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname without abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly. For binary files, outputs two - instead of saying 0 0. Output only the last line of the --stat format containing total number of modified files, as well as number of added and deleted lines.

Output the distribution of relative amount of changes for each sub-directory. The behavior of --dirstat can be customized by passing it a comma separated list of parameters.

The defaults are controlled by the diff. The following parameters are available:. Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the lines that have been removed from the source, or added to the destination. This ignores the amount of pure code movements within a file. In other words, rearranging lines in a file is not counted as much as other changes. This is the default behavior when no parameter is given. For binary files, count byte chunks instead, since binary files have no natural concept of lines.

This is a more expensive --dirstat behavior than the changes behavior, but it does count rearranged lines within a file as much as other changes. Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the number of files changed. Each changed file counts equally in the dirstat analysis. This is the computationally cheapest --dirstat behavior, since it does not have to look at the file contents at all.

Count changes in a child directory for the parent directory as well. The default non-cumulative behavior can be specified with the noncumulative parameter. Directories contributing less than this percentage of the changes are not shown in the output. Output a condensed summary of extended header information such as creations, renames and mode changes. When --raw , --numstat , --name-only or --name-status has been given, do not munge pathnames and use NULs as output field terminators.

Without this option, pathnames with "unusual" characters are quoted as explained for the configuration variable core. Show only names of changed files. The file names are often encoded in UTF For more information see the discussion about encoding in the git-log[1] manual page. Show only names and status of changed files. See the description of the --diff-filter option on what the status letters mean. Just like --name-only the file names are often encoded in UTF Specify how differences in submodules are shown.

This format just shows the names of the commits at the beginning and end of the range. This format lists the commits in the range like git-submodule[1] summary does. This format shows an inline diff of the changes in the submodule contents between the commit range.

Defaults to diff. Show colored diff. It can be changed by the color. Turn off colored diff. This can be used to override configuration settings. Moved lines of code are colored differently. It can be changed by the diff. The mode must be one of:. Any line that is added in one location and was removed in another location will be colored with color. Similarly color. This mode picks up any moved line, but it is not very useful in a review to determine if a block of code was moved without permutation.

Blocks of moved text of at least 20 alphanumeric characters are detected greedily. The detected blocks are painted using either the color. Adjacent blocks cannot be told apart. Blocks of moved text are detected as in blocks mode. The blocks are painted using either the color. The change between the two colors indicates that a new block was detected.