LKBEN11187: Howto configure git for merging with kdiff3
Symptom
You would like a nicer merge tool with git and a GUI
Cause
none
Solution
Merging on the command line can be difficult. A nice GUI tool like kdiff 3 will help a lot. By default kdiff3 will also try to merge lines starting with --. These are deleted lines and can be ignored. You can change this in your KDiff3 configuration. To do this add ";--" to the "command line options to ignore".
To use kdiff3 only sometimes you can use the following.
git mergetool -t kdiff3
To configure it permanently you can use:
git config --global merge.tool kdiff3
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Author: - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG
Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.