Setting Foreground and Background Colors in P4Merge

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Article #:
430
Created:
02/18/07
Modified:
10/23/08
Tags:
background, foreground, p4merge

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TASK

How do I set foreground and background colors in P4Merge?


SOLUTION

To set the foreground and background colors in P4Merge, you use the -fg and -bg flags when you launch P4Merge from the command line. For example:


On Windows: 
p4merge -fg black -bg white $1 $2 $3

On UNIX variants: 
p4v -merge -fg black -bg white $1 $2 $3

To have these settings recognized when launching P4Merge from P4V, you configure your P4V Preferences to enable the diff and merge tools to use "External application", and point them at a script containing the p4merge command invocation from the example above.