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#P4merge as mergetool git how to#
#P4merge as mergetool git install#
#P4merge as mergetool git software#

#P4merge as mergetool git software#

Choose to use an external tool instead of TortoiseMerge The P4merge software is used to resolve the Git conflicts like comparing the files, branching, and merging the files.Choose ‘Diff Viewer’ from the settings tree.Open TortoiseGit->Settings from the Windows start menu.

Run the installer and only select P4Merge to installįollow these steps to setup P4Merge as the default diff viewer for TortoiseGit:.

#P4merge as mergetool git install#

P4Merge is included in the P4 Installer, when executing the installer you’re are able to install P4Merge only, you have to download the entire installer however.

#P4merge as mergetool git how to#

I mainly use the Bash and TortoiseGit when working with GIT, this article demonstrates how to integrate P4Merge with TortoiseGit. Fortunately you can install P4Merge separately without the rest of the system. Personally I prefer Git over Perforce, but Perforce has a great merging/diff tool called P4Merge. This means you can just do: git config -global merge.tool p4merge # and I recommend git config -global mergetool.The team I’m currently working with uses Perforce as their versioning system.

After you exit the merge tool take a look back at your terminal. If you try to merge two branches and subsequently have merge conflicts, you can run the command git mergetool it starts P4Merge to let you resolve the. Note: I had a repository in which even if I did issue the git difftool or git mergetool commands P4Merge wouldnt start. Using the merge tool you can resolve the conflict and then save the file. P4merge is now supported natively by msysgit. Using p4merge to resolve conflicts When you run into a conflict when merging simply run: git mergetool You will be prompted to run 'p4mergetool', hit enter and the visual merge editor will launch. With the settings describe above, MSysGit1.6.3, DOS session or Git bash session: It just works TM. Just tested it (it turns out, you can download and install only p4merge - section Client/Visual Merge Tool -, even if you do not have any other P4 product installed).

the need to always have 3 files to merge as parameters (even when 'base' does not exist.).

Currently im using the p4merge in External Tool.

the conditional path for calling the tool, based on the existence of a "base" file. The way I was able to do it was by configuring git mergetool to be run from external tools menu.

the use of double quotes around $base, $alocal, $remote, $result within the script.

the use of " merge" as name of the merge.tool name (since the actual tool is called in the merge.sh script, where you can switch between any number of merge tool you want).

the use of PWD in the config of the merge.

(when a file is created in two different branches being then merged, there would be no common ancestor for that file) #!/bin/sh # Passing the following parameters to mergetool: # local base remote merge_resultalocal= $1base= $2remote= $3result= $4 if then p4merge.exe -dl " $base" " $alocal" " $remote" " $result" else p4merge.exe -dl " $result" " $alocal" " $remote" " $result" fi You will see here my config for DiffMerge or KDiff3.īased on that, I would recommend for p4merge: git config -global merge.tool mergegit config -global "merge.sh \" $PWD/ $LOCAL\" \" $PWD/ $BASE\" \" $PWD/ $REMOTE\" \" $PWD/ $MERGED\""Īnd merge.sh being a wrapper (copied in a directory referenced by your PATH environment variable), able to take into account the case where no BASE exists. To help you with that you can use a merge tool called P4Merge.