Setting up Beyond Compare 4 in Visual Studio 2013 when using Git

Question

I'm trying to figure out how to configure BEYOND COMPARE 4 to use with Visual Studio 2013 with GIT. NO matter how I seem to configure this it wants to use the VS2013 internal diff/merge tools.

Beyond Compare Install Directory

C:\Program Files (x86)\Beyond Compare 4

from git bash window

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Users\me>git --version
git version 1.8.3.msysgit.0

C:\Users\me>git config --list
core.symlinks=false
core.autocrlf=true
color.diff=auto
color.status=auto
color.branch=auto
color.interactive=true
pack.packsizelimit=2g
help.format=html
http.sslcainfo=/bin/curl-ca-bundle.crt
sendemail.smtpserver=/bin/msmtp.exe
rebase.autosquash=true
diff.tool=bc4
difftool.bc4.path=C:\Program Files (x86)\Beyond Compare 4\BComp.exe
merge.tool=bc4
mergetool.bc4.path=C:\Program Files (x86)\Beyond Compare 4\BComp.exe
core.editor="C:/Program Files (x86)/GitExtensions/GitExtensions.exe" fileeditor
core.autocrlf=true
credential.helper=!\"C:/Program Files (x86)/GitExtensions/GitCredentialWinStore/
git-credential-winstore.exe\"
user.name=me
user.email=me@email.com
gui.recentrepo=C:/DevSource/mercury

C:\Users\me>

Global gitcoinfig in GIT install / etc directory

[core]
    symlinks = false
    autocrlf = true
[color]
    diff = auto
    status = auto
    branch = auto
    interactive = true
[pack]
    packSizeLimit = 2g
[help]
    format = html
[http]
    sslCAinfo = /bin/curl-ca-bundle.crt
[sendemail]
    smtpserver = /bin/msmtp.exe

[rebase]
    autosquash = true
[diff]
    tool = bc4
[difftool "bc4"]
    path = C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Beyond Compare 4\\BComp.exe
[merge]
    tool = bc4
[mergetool "bc4"]
    path = C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Beyond Compare 4\\BComp.exe

Also tried changing the exe to BCompare.exe instead of BComp.exe but that didn't work either. Any help would be appreciated!

What do you get when you run `git mergetool`? – mgarciaisaia Jun 06 '14 at 16:12 — mgarciaisaia, Jun 06 '14 at 16:12

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

Actually I believe I found the answer in this post Git Diff with Beyond Compare which so far seems to work. The visual studio environment brings up the new BC4.0 IDE instead of the internal tools.

[diff]
    tool = bc4
[difftool "bc4"]
    cmd = \"c:/program files (x86)/beyond compare 4/bcomp.exe\" \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\"
[merge]
    tool = bc4
[mergetool "bc4"]
    cmd = \"c:/program files (x86)/beyond compare 4/bcomp.exe\" \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\" \"$BASE\" \"$MERGED\"
    trustExitCode = true

Setting up Beyond Compare 4 in Visual Studio 2013 when using Git

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