CygWin environment TortoiseMerge shows error

Asked By Harriet S Ramos 0 points N/A Posted on - 09/30/2013

Greetings,

The CygWin is an environment for Windows which makes it possible to port software running on POSIX systems such as Linux and Unix. I created a unified diff but it showed up an error as shown below.

Error message:

The line “Index: “was not found!

Either this is not a diff file or the diff is empty.

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Answered By Nichols Fryman 15 points N/A #182377

CygWin environment TortoiseMerge shows error

Hi Harriet,
The error is because TortiseMerge is not installed in the correct file path.
The solution to it is:
1) Go to 'MyComputer' > 'Properties' > 'Advanced' > 'EnvironmentVariables' > 'System Variables':Path
2) From Commannd Prompt, type following commands:
a) git config –replace –global diff.tool tortisemerge
b) git config –replace –global difftool.diffmerge.cmd "TortiseMerge.exe -base:"$BASE"-theirs:"REMOTE"-mine:"$LOCAL"-merged:"$MERGED"
c) git config –replace –global difftool.prompt false
3) Restart the system after executing the above commands and the error is resolved

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• Posted on - 10/27/2013
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