How to configure git diff tool to use emacs diff tool

[hap 497]

Hi,

One can configure git merge tool to use vimdiff

$git config --global merge.tool vimdiff

How can I change it to use emacs diff? And is it possible to use
emacsclient for diff?
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsClient#toc1 (so that I can speed
things up by not launching a new emacs every time).

Thank you.

[Andreas Politz]

hap 497 <hap...@gmail.com> writes:

It seems obvious, how to do this. The emacs function is `ediff-files' and it
takes 2 arguments, namely the files to run diff on. Combine this with
the --eval option of emacs(client) in a shell.

$ cat ~/bin/ediff
#!/bin/sh

emacsclient --eval "(ediff-files \"$1\" \"$2\")"

-ap

[n179911]

I tried you script. When I run it at command line with 2 different files:

$ /Users/paul/bin/ediff.sh src/ComposeMessageActivity.java src/NewActivity.java

it works.

But after i set that up to git merge.tool
$ git config --global merge.tool /Users/paul/bin/ediff.sh
$ git diff
It does not invoke the ediff. It still uses the shell diff tool.

Thank you for any idea.

[Andreas Politz]

n179911 <n17...@gmail.com> writes:

Read the manual, especially `merge.tool' and `merge.<tool>.cmd'. I
never used git-merge, so I don't know how this ought to behave.

-ap

[Andreas Politz]

hap 497 <hap...@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> One can configure git merge tool to use vimdiff
>
> $git config --global merge.tool vimdiff
>
> How can I change it to use emacs diff? And is it possible to use
> emacsclient for diff?

I had another look at this. The library in emacs is called emerge,
which is already supported by git.

-ap

[David Combs]

The other day I discovered a thin (100pgs) (commercial!) book
on diff and patch, by Stallman and someone.

Goes into great detail about using diff, patch, etc.

Here it is:

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