When you install winmerge after TortoiseSVN it gives you the option of associating winmerge with Tortoise. But if we install TortoiseSVN after winmerge how can we associate Winmerge to be used instead of Tortoise default diff viewer.
Windows – How to integrate WinMerge with TortoiseSvn after installation
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Update September 2015 (6 years later)
The last release of git-for-Windows (2.5.3) now includes:
By configuring
git config core.editor notepad
, users can now usenotepad.exe
as their default editor.
Configuringgit config format.commitMessageColumns 72
will be picked up by the notepad wrapper and line-wrap the commit message after the user edits it.
See commit 69b301b by Johannes Schindelin (dscho
).
And Git 2.16 (Q1 2018) will show a message to tell the user that it is waiting for the user to finish editing when spawning an editor, in case the editor opens to a hidden window or somewhere obscure and the user gets lost.
See commit abfb04d (07 Dec 2017), and commit a64f213 (29 Nov 2017) by Lars Schneider (larsxschneider
).
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano (gitster
).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster
-- in commit 0c69a13, 19 Dec 2017)
launch_editor()
: indicate that Git waits for user inputWhen a graphical
GIT_EDITOR
is spawned by a Git command that opens and waits for user input (e.g. "git rebase -i
"), then the editor window might be obscured by other windows.
The user might be left staring at the original Git terminal window without even realizing that s/he needs to interact with another window before Git can proceed. To this user Git appears hanging.Print a message that Git is waiting for editor input in the original terminal and get rid of it when the editor returns, if the terminal supports erasing the last line
Original answer
I just tested it with git version 1.6.2.msysgit.0.186.gf7512 and Notepad++5.3.1
I prefer to not have to set an EDITOR variable, so I tried:
git config --global core.editor "\"c:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe\""
# or
git config --global core.editor "\"c:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe\" %*"
That always gives:
C:\prog\git>git config --global --edit
"c:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" %*: c:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe: command not found
error: There was a problem with the editor '"c:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" %*'.
If I define a npp.bat including:
"c:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" %*
and I type:
C:\prog\git>git config --global core.editor C:\prog\git\npp.bat
It just works from the DOS session, but not from the git shell.
(not that with the core.editor configuration mechanism, a script with "start /WAIT...
" in it would not work, but only open a new DOS window)
Bennett's answer mentions the possibility to avoid adding a script, but to reference directly the program itself between simple quotes. Note the direction of the slashes! Use /
NOT \
to separate folders in the path name!
git config --global core.editor \
"'C:/Program Files/Notepad++/notepad++.exe' -multiInst -notabbar -nosession -noPlugin"
Or if you are in a 64 bit system:
git config --global core.editor \
"'C:/Program Files (x86)/Notepad++/notepad++.exe' -multiInst -notabbar -nosession -noPlugin"
But I prefer using a script (see below): that way I can play with different paths or different options without having to register again a git config
.
The actual solution (with a script) was to realize that:
what you refer to in the config file is actually a shell (/bin/sh
) script, not a DOS script.
So what does work is:
C:\prog\git>git config --global core.editor C:/prog/git/npp.bat
with C:/prog/git/npp.bat
:
#!/bin/sh
"c:/Program Files/Notepad++/notepad++.exe" -multiInst "$*"
or
#!/bin/sh
"c:/Program Files/Notepad++/notepad++.exe" -multiInst -notabbar -nosession -noPlugin "$*"
With that setting, I can do 'git config --global --edit
' from DOS or Git Shell, or I can do 'git rebase -i ...
' from DOS or Git Shell.
Bot commands will trigger a new instance of notepad++ (hence the -multiInst
' option), and wait for that instance to be closed before going on.
Note that I use only '/', not \
'. And I installed msysgit using option 2. (Add the git\bin
directory to the PATH
environment variable, but without overriding some built-in windows tools)
The fact that the notepad++ wrapper is called .bat is not important.
It would be better to name it 'npp.sh' and to put it in the [git]\cmd
directory though (or in any directory referenced by your PATH environment variable).
See also:
- How do I view ‘git diff’ output with visual diff program? for the general theory
- How do I setup DiffMerge with msysgit / gitk? for another example of external tool (DiffMerge, and WinMerge)
lightfire228 adds in the comments:
For anyone having an issue where N++ just opens a blank file, and git doesn't take your commit message, see "Aborting commit due to empty message": change your
.bat
or.sh
file to say:
"<path-to-n++" .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG -<arguments>.
That will tell notepad++ to open the temp commit file, rather than a blank new one.
I couldn't properly follow the other answers, here's more of a dummies guide...
You can do this either way round to go trunk -> branch
or branch -> trunk
. I always first do trunk -> branch
fix any conflicts there and then merge branch -> trunk
.
Merge trunk into a branch / tag
- Checkout the branch / tag
- Right-click on the root of the branch | Tortoise SVN | Merge ...
- Merge Type: Merge a range of revisions | Click 'Next'
- Merge revision range: Select the URL of the trunk directory that you copied to the branch / tag. Enter the revisions to merge or leave the field empty to merge all revisions | click 'Next'
- Merge options: I just left these as default | click 'Merge'
- This will merge the revisions into the checked out branch / tag
- Then commit the merged changes to the branch / tag
Best Answer
You can open the TortoiseSVN settings and manually enter it:
My command line from the screenshot above is:
If you install TortoiseSVN after WinMerge, probably the easiest way would be to uninstall and re-install WinMerge again.