How do I install tkdiff on windows?

Question

I set up Git today to work with GitHub. I want to use tkdiff as my default diff tool. I remember I used it before and it was nice and easy.

I downloaded the zip file from their website and see a tkdif file in the zip. However, I am not sure how to install it. Where do I place the file?

Additionally, what is the correct way to set tkdiff as the default diff/merge tool?

Thank you!

Is that me or it's not a windows tool? Do you confuse with kdiff3? — Philippe, Jun 08 '20 at 10:12
yea i couldn't figure out how to get it to work on windows. went with kdiff3 instead — trustory, Jun 08 '20 at 19:10

VonC · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-08T10:19:27.413

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Add the folder which contains tkdiff.exe to your %PATH% (where you have uncompressed tkdiff 4.3.5).

Configure the tool in Git:

git config --global diff.tool tkdiff
git config --global difftool.tkdiff.cmd "\"C:\\Path\\to\\tkdiff.exe\" -s \"\$LOCAL\" -d \"\$REMOTE\""

Note that tkdiff wiki does not mention any recent Windows support (using TclTk)

So you might want to consider instead kdiff3, as commented, which does actually has a kdiff3.exe.

edited Jun 08 '20 at 10:19

answered Jun 08 '20 at 05:59

VonC

I used KDiff3 per your link and it worked. the only thing I had to add was $ git config --global diff.tool kdiff3 Also, is there a way to default to KDiff3 when typing 'git diff'? – trustory Jun 08 '20 at 19:11
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@trustory Not with `git diff` directly, but just typing `git difftool` will launch the tool you have previously configured (https://stackoverflow.com/a/26732990/6309) – VonC Jun 08 '20 at 19:18

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