On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Kyle Meyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> [I accidentally dropped the list in the reply.  Resending.]
>
> Martin Geisler <[email protected]> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> The only times were I have to drop back to a terminal and raw Git
>> commands is when I have merge conflicts. I then run "git mergetool" in
>> my terminal to have KDiff3 start on the files in question.
>>
>> I haven't found a way to run an external mergetool from within Magit.
>> The manual page about conflicts doesn't mention anything about
>> external tools: https://magit.vc/manual/magit/Resolving-conflicts.html
>>
>> Is there a keybinding I'm missing?
>
> No, I don't think there's currently a command or keybinding for "git
> mergetool", though running ":mergetool" is a bit shorter than switching
> to a shell.

Hey, that's cool! I didn't know about the ":" shortcut for starting
Git commands. I'll try that next time I have a conflict to resolve.

> I suspect that most Magit users rely on some combination of
> smerge and ediff (magit-ediff-resolve) to resolve conflicts within
> Emacs, but I don't know.  It may be worth mentioning git-mergetool here:
> https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/2849.

Thanks, I've added it to the list!

-- 
Martin Geisler

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