What are the advantages of using bbdiff as the diff tool for git?

[László Sándor]

Hi,

I think I figured out how to do this, but I haven't found a write-up or mention of its benefits. Is this mostly about speed? How much speed? Any pitfalls?

Though I could not verify that the GitHub app on the mac would rely on this, even if bbdiff is the global difftool in gitconfig.

Thanks,

Laszlo

[Watts Martin]

It's mostly whether you like BBEdit as a diff tool, I'd say. Any GUI diff tool is an advantage over just using git straight, and since you already have BBEdit there's no reason not to use it -- it's better than many others I've used.

(Having said that, I actually use Kaleidoscope as my git diff tool, mostly because I use it as a git merge tool: BBEdit can't do a three-way merge. But I do use bbdiff from the command line on occasion, and I've been using the "Compare with..." functionality in the new Git menu in BBEdit 11.1 frequently.)

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[László Sándor]

Oh, then I probably did not even know what to expect from the git diff tool.

In any case, now I downloaded 11.1, maybe I'll just use that for git. So it won't mess up anything in GitHub, it's supposed to be standard git?

Thanks!

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[Watts Martin]

It shouldn't; we use GitHub for managing our repositories and BBEdit's Git integration seems to be perfectly happy. I bounce between it, the command line and occasionally the free GitHub for Mac app without any trouble.