KDiff3 master as git mergetool? Yes, please!

I like using kdiff3, I also like using git, I also like using bundles for applications. Let’s put the three together!

Set up the KDE git flatpak repo and install kdiff3

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists kdeapps --from https://distribute.kde.org/kdeapps.flatpakrepo
flatpak install kdeapps org.kde.kdiff3

Write a tiny shim around this so we can use it from git. Put it in /usr/bin/kdiff3 or $HOME/bin/kdiff3 if $PATH is set up to include bins from $HOME.

#/bin/sh
exec flatpak run org.kde.kdiff3 "$@"

Don’t forget to chmod +x kdiff3 it!

git mergetool should now pick up our kdiff3 wrapper automatically. So all that’s left to do is having a merge conflict and off we go with git mergetool