Configuring as the diff tool in vscode & git

[paulie]

The only mention I see here of vscode is a few years old and things move quickly, so I wanted to see what the recommended way of doing the following is:

I'm on a mac and using vscode with the gitlens plugin. When I right-click "changes" in the "source control" pane I get the option "open directory compare (difftool)". When I click it I get the error:

openDirectoryCompare
Error: No diff tool found

I'd like it to open Beyond Compare.

Is there a recommended way to configure that?

[Aaron]

Gitlens looks like it's written by GitKraken, which is likely using your current .gitconfig.

If you use Git Bash from the command line, is it configured to launch a file diff? And a directory diff if you use git difftool --dir-diff ?
Does the plug-in then work after this is configured?

I'm not as familiar with the plug-in vs. Code's default Git interface, but I can launch the difftool commands from Code and get BC4 to launch, though I see three different, similarly worded entries under Changes -> Open Changes: "Open All Changes (difftool)", "Open directory compare (difftool)", and "Open directory compare with (difftool)"

The first one opens 3 tabs, one for each file, while the directory compare options open the Folder Compare view.

[paulie]

Thanks! I got it working. For anyone else, here's what I did:

1) In BeyondCompare, menu "Beyond Compare" => "Install command line tools"
2) In terminal: `git config --global diff.tool bc`
3) In BeyondCompare, menu "Session" => "Session Settings" => "Handling" : check "Follow symbolic links" and change "use for this view only" to "also update session defaults", then click "ok".

Then in vscode, in the source control pane, right-click the word "Changes" and choose "Open Changes" => "Open Directory Compare"