I’m running Windows 7 with Git 1.8.3.msysgit.0 installed.
#BEYOND COMPARE KEY GIT HOW TO#
In this short tutorial I’ll show you how to configure Git to use Beyond Compare instead of the built in diff tool. Git provides a way to change the diff tool. If you have big changes it can be very confusing. However the built in diff tool isn’t to everyone’s liking. Hope this helps! let us know your thoughts in the comments below.Using the Git command line interface (Git Bash) is simple and straightforward. ) so you can invoke the merge tool from everywhere and have visual studio handle everything. If visual studio is your tool of choice, i simply suggest you configure it globally (file named the net result is similar to what i suggested in my old post, vs just adds the six sections for diff and merge in the config file. if you receive further conflicts, you do not need to wait for vs to reopen it with the gitīut if you really want to configure vs as diff and merge tool, if you press "use visual studio" button ( If you configured instead vs as diff and tool, you can simply issue a gitĬommand and everything will be done automatically without any user intervention.īut to be honest, the latest vs git integration is really good and it is surely better to manually open the local repository.Īs an example, if you are doing a rebase from the command-line and you got conflicts, it is better to manually open vs, solve the conflict, and then continue to rebase the operation inside vs. Go to the team explorer changes pane to start resolving conflicts if you got a conflict during an operation started from any other tool (gui or command line), the procedure is:įrom vs team explorer, localize the local git repository and open it Is useful only if you are operating with some other tool or with the command line. This happens because when you open a git repository, visual studio monitors the status of the repository and, if some operation has unresolved conflicts, it shows the situation to the user without the need to do anything Git diff and merge section as saved from visual studio 2019 preview
#BEYOND COMPARE KEY GIT FULL#
the rationale behind this choice is that if you are inside a tool (like vs) that has full support for diff and merge, the tool will automatically present you with diff and merge capabilities without checking repo configuration. If you are inside visual studio, it will handle diff and merge automatically, even if it is not configured as diff or merge tool. If you have a conflict during merge or rebase, visual studio will automatically show conflicts and guide you during merging. if you use only visual studio, these settings are not so useful Merge and diff configurations are typical settings that are made at the user level and not for each individual repositoryĪs you can see, in figure 3, no diff or merge tool was set for the current repository this means that it will use the default one for the user (in my situation is none). If you open the repository settings, usually, you find that no specific diff and merge tool is set. Settings pane contains a specific section for git where you can configure settings for the current repository or global settings that are valid for all repositories of the current user.
Git repository settings inside visual studio team explorerĭiff and merge tool configuration inside visual studio. If you use visual studio 2017 or greater, you can simply go to team explorer and open settings of the repository.
That post was written when visual studio 2012 was the latest version and the integration with git was still really young, made with an external plugin made by microsoft and with really basic support. Is still read by people that found it useful, but it is now really really old and needs to be updated. How to configure diff and merge tool in visual studio git tools
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