Re: How to invoke meld on OSX the same way git does from the command line.

[Russell Jarvis <colouredstatic gmail com>]

Hi Youssef,

Great thanks for your help. This alias helps a lot, however it only works if you use absolute paths to the files that you want meld to open.

For instance after defining said alias

$meld `pwd`/file1.py `pwd`/file2.py # works

However this is still not as graceful as one would like. I tried defining a bash function in .profile instead, but invoking meld this way also does not produce the intended behaviour.

function meld {

    /Applications/Meld.app/Contents/MacOS/Meld $@

}

On 2 August 2016 at 05:10, Youssef A. Abou-Kewik <youssef adnan gmail com> wrote:

Russel,

After installing Meld to the /Applications folder, add the following to your .bashrc

alias meld="/Applications/Meld.app/Contents/MacOS/Meld"

One done, you can start a terminal and use meld from the command line as you normally would in Linux.

Check this for more details: https://github.com/yousseb/meld/issues/20

Regards,

Youssef

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 4:10 AM, Russell Jarvis <colouredstatic gmail com> wrote:

Hi everyone,

First of all I would like to thank the community for creating and maintaining Meld. It is by far my favourite graphical merge tool. It also provides the only graphical merge flow that instantly made sense to me.

I have configured git to invoke meld when it needs to merge. Some how git is able to launch meld with two files as an argument. I would like to be able to also launch meld with two files as an argument explicitly. As often I want to diff files for other reasons than a git merge. When I launch meld from the command line in Apple it ignores any command line arguments I give it, so I am wondering how can I find the code that git merge uses to invoke it? I have tried searching the git source code on github but to evail.

Thanks for your help.

Russell.

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