GIT 2.10 VCS with BC4 4.19 on Mac can't get it to work

[tjtaill]

Hi all I have scoured these forums and the internet and I can't get beyond compare to work with git

git difftool file.ext

does nothing no matter what I try or do

latest is

these steps

git config --global diff.tool bc3
git config --global difftool.bc3.trustExitCode true
git config --global merge.tool bc3
git config --global mergetool.bc3.trustExitCode true
ln -s /usr/local/bin/bcomp /usr/local/bin/bc3

which give the following ~/.gitconfg

[diff]
tool = bc3
[difftool "bc3"]
trustExitCode = true
[merge]
tool = bc3
[mergetool "bc3"]
trustExitCode = true

If anybody gots something that actually works please share

Troy

[Aaron]

Hello,

Delete your ln that created a "bc3" link. bc3 is a keyword that Git has internally defined, and should not directly match an existing entity on your system (it's Git's method of calling to bcompare, and they haven't updated the keyword to "bc" or "bc4" yet, but still works).

If you haven't installed bcompare/bcomp, then you'll want to launch Beyond Compare, and use the Beyond Compare menu -> Install Command Line Utilities to create these shortcuts (bcompare and bcomp).

You can then test them on your Terminal command line. Can they launch the application? If you pass in two test files does it launch?

A full set of instructions is found here:
http://www.scootersoftware.com/suppo...kb_vcs_osx#git