git show commit in beyond compare

Question

I would like to see a specific commit in Beyond Compare or any other separate diff tool while viewing it via git show. I tried looking at help of git show/difftool/

Answer 1

You can also create an alias "showtool" to wrap the call to git difftool:

set +o histexpand
git config --global alias.showtool "!sh -c 'if [ -z \$1 ]; then REVISION="HEAD"; else REVISION="\$1"; fi; git difftool \$REVISION~ \$REVISION' -"

.. then you can execute:

git showtool 81e945b

.. or just

git showtool

.. as a shortcut for git difftool 81e945b~1 81e945b to show the changes introduced in 81e945b using the configured difftool, or in the second case git difftool HEAD~1 HEAD