How To Configure Git To Work With DiffMerge

If you’ve reached this post by way of a search engine, I’m guessing it’s at least the fifth, sixth, or twentieth one you’ve looked at trying to understand why the hell git mergetool doesn’t launch DiffMerge. Or why git mergetool -tool-help tells you “blah blah blah The following tools are valid, but not currently available: blah blah diffmerge blah blah”. Or: “The merge tool diffmerge is not available as ‘diffmerge’”. You’ve already done everything you think you need to do in order to get DiffMerge and Git playing nicely together, right?...

June 30, 2015 · 2 min · Nick Spreitzer