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Changing mergetool tool to use kdiff3 on Mac
The list of supported tools
$ git mergetool --tool-help
Setting kdiff3 as mergetool tool
$ git config --global merge.tool kdiff3
In case you want to config diff.tool
$ git config --global diff.tool kdiff3
If kdiff3 is not in your PATH environment also do
$ git config --global mergetool.kdiff3.path /Applications/kdiff3.app/Contents/MacOS/kdiff3
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duttonw commented Aug 27, 2020

steps are now
brew update
brew tap homebrew/cask
brew cask install kdiff3

@dansbrazil
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Here I had to use:

brew update
brew tap homebrew/cask
brew install --cask kdiff3

That's the command recommended by Homebrew

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