Lauch external merge tool (kdiff3) not working

Max Edwards July 24, 2014

I have kdiff3 installed on my mac in the usual /Applications/kdiff3.app/Contents/MacOS/kdiff3 but source tree does not lauch it when kdiff3 is selected at the merge tool.

I have it in the path also so that kdiff3 can be launched from the command line so I tried setting external merge tool to "other" and using the command maually. Again nothing launched.

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Max Edwards July 24, 2014

Just realised that the merge conflict was because the other file was deleted which may be why the merge tool will not launch. Might be worth throwing up a message though to explain to the user why the merge tool is not appropriate or will not work.

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Balázs Szakmáry
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July 24, 2014

Indeed, the merge tool does not launch if one of the conflicting actions is a delete. (I agree completely that it should not do this silently.)

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Max Edwards July 24, 2014

Just double checked in SourceTree and nothing makes it clear that the file had been delete in a previous commit that you are trying to merge with.

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