Question

I would like to see a specific commit in Beyond Compare or any other separate diff tool while viewing it via git show. I tried looking at help of git show/difftool/config but couldn’t find anything. Does anyone know how it can be done?

I’ve looked at Git Diff with Beyond Compare and configured Beyond Compare for git difftool but I also want to use it as tool from git show

Answer 1

I managed to use git difftool to see commits that I normally used to see via git show.

git show $commit translates to git difftool $commit^ $commit.

The above command shows difference between commit’s parent ($commit^) and commit. All this is of course after configuring Beyond Compare with difftool.