How do I view 'git diff' output with my preferred diff tool/ viewer?

Question

When I type git diff, I want to view the output with my visual diff tool of choice (SourceGear \"diffmerge\" on Windows). How do I configure git to do this?

Answer 1

Install meld

 # apt-get install meld

Then choose that as difftool

 $ git config --global diff.tool meld

If tou want to run it on console type:

 $ git difftool

If you want to use graphic mode type:

 $ git mergetool

And the output would be:

 'git mergetool' will now attempt to use one of the following tools:
 meld opendiff kdiff3 tkdiff xxdiff tortoisemerge gvimdiff diffuse
 diffmerge ecmerge p4merge araxis bc3 codecompare emerge vimdiff
 Merging:
 www/css/style.css
 www/js/controllers.js

 Normal merge conflict for 'www/css/style.css':
   {local}: modified file
   {remote}: modified file
 Hit return to start merge resolution tool (meld):

So just press enter to use meld(default), this would open graphic mode, make the magic save and press that that resolve the merge. That's all