On 23.07.2012 05:42, David Aguilar wrote:

Organize the script so that it has a single main() function which
calls out to dir_diff() and file_diff() functions. This eliminates
"dir-diff"-specific variables that do not need to be calculated when
performing a regular file-diff.

Funny, I just have prepared a patch along the same lines so that one can call git-difftool -h and --tool-help also outside a repository, see below. Does you patch offer the same? If so, I'll drop mine.

---
 git-difftool.perl | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-difftool.perl b/git-difftool.perl
index ae1e052..e7b71c9 100755
--- a/git-difftool.perl
+++ b/git-difftool.perl
@@ -25,8 +25,9 @@ use Git;
 my @tools;
 my @working_tree;
 my $rc;
-my $repo = Git->repository();
-my $repo_path = $repo->repo_path();
+my $repo;
+my $repo_path;
+my $workdir;

 sub usage
 {
@@ -62,8 +63,6 @@ sub find_worktree
        return $worktree;
 }

-my $workdir = find_worktree();
-
 sub filter_tool_scripts
 {
        if (-d $_) {
@@ -293,6 +292,11 @@ if (defined($help)) {
 if (defined($tool_help)) {
        print_tool_help();
 }
+
+$repo = Git->repository();
+$repo_path = $repo->repo_path();
+$workdir = find_worktree();
+
 if (defined($difftool_cmd)) {
        if (length($difftool_cmd) > 0) {
                $ENV{GIT_DIFF_TOOL} = $difftool_cmd;
--
1.7.11.msysgit.2
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