Ben Fritz, 22.05.2009:
> 
> On May 21, 5:42 am, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > If you are on Windows (including Cygwin), you may also want to replace
> > "vimdiff" in the above command by either "vim.exe -d" or "gvim.exe -d"
> > with the .exe extension in order to bypass any *.bat wrappers. The
> > single quotes are essential on Unix-like shells (including Cygwin bash),
> > to make sure that $VIMRUNTIME is passed to Vim as-is without any
> > conversion by the shell.
> >
> 
> Why bypass the .bat wrappers?

To make vimdiff work when invoked in a shell.

> I've never seen any problems with them.

I have:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=commitdiff;h=bad42732008cb0c1e77046d716e4446b1545d4d0

Markus


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