- #GIT CONFIG P4MERGE HOW TO#
- #GIT CONFIG P4MERGE FULL#
- #GIT CONFIG P4MERGE PORTABLE#
- #GIT CONFIG P4MERGE WINDOWS#
It basically amounted to adding these lines to my.
#GIT CONFIG P4MERGE WINDOWS#
Of all the guis I checked, KDiff3 proved to be the most transparent to use.īut I found the instructions I needed to get it working in Windows in this blog post, instructions which differ slightly from the other approaches listed here.
#GIT CONFIG P4MERGE PORTABLE#
Im using Portable Git on WinXP (works a treat!), and needed to resolve a conflict that came up in branching. Git on Windows: How do you set up a mergetool? Setting will not work anymore since Git has started trying to support p4merge, see libexec/git-core/git-mergetool–lib.so we just need to specify the mergetool path for git,for example the p4merge: git config -global C:Program FilesPerforcep4merge.exe
#GIT CONFIG P4MERGE HOW TO#
$LOCALAPPDATA/Perforce/p4merge.exe), git does not seem to be expanding environment variables for paths (if you know how to get this working, please let me know or update this answer)
Even better would have been to take advantage of an environment variable (e.g. Although ~ should expand to current users home directory (so in theory the path should be ~/AppData/Local/Perforce/p4merge.exe), this did not work for me. The above is an example path when p4merge was installed for the current user, not system-wide (does not need admin rights or UAC elevation) git config -global merge.tool p4merge git config -global C:/Program Files/Perforce/p4merge.exe git config -global diff.tool. If it was listed as valid, you have to define in addition to merge.tool: git config -global c:/Users/my-login/AppData/Local/Perforce/p4merge.exe If p4merge was listed as available, it is in your PATH and you only have to set merge.tool: git config -global merge.tool p4merge You should see p4merge in either available or valid list. You can display list of supported tools by running: git mergetool -tool-help #GIT CONFIG P4MERGE FULL#
note that by default Perforce will add its installation dir to PATH, thus no need to specify full path to p4merge in the commandĪs pointed out by Pakosz, latest msys git now natively supports p4merge (tested on 1.8.5.2.msysgit.0). added double quotes for all file names so that files with spaces can still be found by the merge tool (I tested this in msys Git from Powershell). 
the custom tool config value resides in mergetool.cmd, not merge.cmd (silly me, spent an hour troubleshooting why git kept complaining about non-existing tool). 
valid for all git projects not just the current one The changes (relative to Charles Bailey): Or, from a windows cmd.exe shell, the second line becomes : git config -global p4merge.exe $BASE $LOCAL $REMOTE $MERGED Git config -global p4merge.exe $BASE $LOCAL $REMOTE $MERGED To follow-up on Charles Baileys answer, heres my git setup thats using p4merge (free cross-platform 3way merge tool) tested on msys Git (Windows) install: git config -global merge.tool p4merge By ivana… 1 month agoĪnother year for me at Grafana Labs, another major release for grafana and another year of working with a fantasti… twitter.Git on Windows: How do you set up a mergetool? RT grafana: A step-by-step guide to setting up a sourdough starter monitoring system with Prometheus and Grafana Cloud baked in. RT torkelo: If you have tried the new Prometheus query builder I would love feedback, positive and negative, and ideas for how we can make… 3 weeks ago
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Profiling Golang Programs on Kubernetes. Graphite and Grafana – How to calculate Percentage of Total/Percent Distribution. Personal Update: Going full time on Grafana. Next Next post: Git for Windows tip: Setting $HOME and the startup directory Search for: Search Recent Posts Git for Windows tip: Setting shell aliases with msysgit (). Git for Windows tip: setting an editor (). To select the local version, for example, I would click the blue diamond icon and then save and quit. In the merge window at the bottom all three versions are currently selected. The local version on the left, the base version in the middle and the remote version (the master branch) on the right. An example of using P4MergeĪnd this is what a 3-way merge looks like. orig file automatically by setting mergetool.keepBackup to false in git config but I have not succeeded in getting that to work for me yet. It should be possible to have git remove the. Finally commit the merge and then remove any. Choose which version wins or edit the merge manually and then save and quit P4Merge. The base version is the common ancestor of the local version and the remote version. This will open P4Merge and show three different versions of the file your local version, the version you are trying to merge in (probably the master branch) and the base version.
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