

Setting will not work anymore since Git has started trying to support p4merge, see libexec/git-core/git-mergetool–lib.so we just need to specify the mergetool path for git,for example the p4merge: git config -global C:Program FilesPerforcep4merge.exe

#Install p4merge how to
$LOCALAPPDATA/Perforce/p4merge.exe), git does not seem to be expanding environment variables for paths (if you know how to get this working, please let me know or update this answer)
#Install p4merge full
note that by default Perforce will add its installation dir to PATH, thus no need to specify full path to p4merge in the commandĪs pointed out by Pakosz, latest msys git now natively supports p4merge (tested on 1.8.5.2.msysgit.0).added double quotes for all file names so that files with spaces can still be found by the merge tool (I tested this in msys Git from Powershell).the custom tool config value resides in mergetool.cmd, not merge.cmd (silly me, spent an hour troubleshooting why git kept complaining about non-existing tool).valid for all git projects not just the current one The changes (relative to Charles Bailey): Or, from a windows cmd.exe shell, the second line becomes : git config -global p4merge.exe $BASE $LOCAL $REMOTE $MERGED Git config -global p4merge.exe $BASE $LOCAL $REMOTE $MERGED To follow-up on Charles Baileys answer, heres my git setup thats using p4merge (free cross-platform 3way merge tool) tested on msys Git (Windows) install: git config -global merge.tool p4merge

Git on Windows: How do you set up a mergetool?
