Up And Running With Nova As The Default Diff Tool.

Nova is a beautiful Text Editor if you're on a Apple machine, and you don't need all the functionality of a hardy, possibly bloated IDE.

However, where it's really mindblowing is how it visualizes Diffs. It's hands down the easiest way to work through the merge or pull request process. And it's so beautiful and elegant and smooth and, frankly, stylish that it turns what was once a painful task to something to look forward to.

Set up Nova as your default Diffs tools using the command line:

bash

ls -l "/Applications/Nova.app/Contents/SharedSupport/nova"

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git config --global diff.tool nova
git config --global difftool.nova.cmd '"/Applications/Nova.app/Contents/SharedSupport/nova" "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE"'
git config --global difftool.prompt false

Instead of using git diff to resolve conflicts, you use git difftool

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git difftool  # Shows all changes
git difftool path/to/file  # Shows changes for specific file

• Nova will automatically open when you use git difftool • The prompt asking to launch the diff tool is disabled • The configuration is global, so it works in all your Git repositories