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ForNeVeR / ExtDiff

Compare documents using MS Word from the command line.
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Enable extdiff with git globally #8

Closed tangoalx closed 5 years ago

tangoalx commented 5 years ago

At the moment, you must configure each repository to pass the diff to ms word, since you need to copy the .gitattributes file in the repository.

However, there is a possibility to make it available globally for all projects of a user. You can copy the .gitattributes file into the user's home directory instead into your projects root directory. Git need to know the location of that file. You can set it and check if the path is correctly expanded to the location where you copied the .gitattributes file:

git config --global core.attributesfile ~/.gitattributes
git config --global core.attributesfile

I suggest to update the README.MD to help also user's who are inexperienced with git.

Thanks by the way for that really cool tool.

ForNeVeR commented 5 years ago

Thank you, this is a good suggestion. I wasn't aware of the global .gitattributes myself, so this will help me to save a bit of typing :)