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**jps** · September 27, 2018, 3:40pm

We’re pleased to announce Sublime Merge is now available - https://www.sublimemerge.com

Let us know if you have any questions!

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**jps** · September 20, 2018, 8:23am

**dhbn** · September 20, 2018, 8:33am

Cool. Just downloaded it. Does it need a local git binary or will all be handled by Sublime Merge itselfs? I wanted to try it out on a Windows PC without git and I don’t get any error message but cloning also didn’t work because of time outs.

**jps** · September 20, 2018, 8:35am

We bundle Git on Windows and Mac, so you shouldn’t need git installed there.

FWIW there’s a git_binary preference that you can set to either a full path, or “system”, to use the system Git, if any.

**nicoverbruggen** · September 20, 2018, 9:15am

Hi! I’m really digging the speed of Sublime Merge, but I’m having issues with git-lfs at the moment.

I have installed git-lfs via Homebrew on macOS and specified my homebrewed git binary via git_binary, but that does not seem to help, I keep receiving the following message whenever I try to push to a repository that has Git LFS enabled serverside:

This repository is configured for Git LFS but 'git-lfs' was not found on your path. If you no longer wish to use Git LFS, remove this hook by deleting .git/hooks/pre-push.

Obviously, I’d like to keep using git-lfs, so deleting the hook is not an option (for this particular repository). Is there any way to get this working?

Thanks!

EDIT: Solution below as per Homebrew FAQ:

sudo launchctl config user path "/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

A reboot afterwards is required.

**jps** · September 20, 2018, 9:09am

It sounds like we are running the git binary you asked (Help|Debug Information will help to confirm that), but perhaps not with the PATH that it needs to run successfully.

I’ll take a proper look into what the options are later (I’m a bit swamped right now!), but if it is a PATH issue, then the best option is probably editing environment.plist, which is where Mac applications get their PATH from

**alexandrul** · September 20, 2018, 9:34am

Could you share a sample editor configuration for VSCode, please?

**nicoverbruggen** · September 20, 2018, 9:15am

Yes, I can confirm via Help|Debug that the correct version of git is being used.

I figured it out and got it working. According to the Homebrew documentation, you need to run:

sudo launchctl config user path "/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

and then – after a reboot – your apps can use your homebrewed binaries (including git-lfs). Hope this can be useful for someone else who has the same issue.

**mauroreisvieira** · September 20, 2018, 9:17am

This is amazing!! excellent would this work inside Sublime.

**dinapolis** · September 20, 2018, 9:22am

Just downloaded, I love it already!

One question, is there a way to bookmark repositories? I work with several repos and it would be great to have a way to quick switch between the ones I use the most instead of going to “Open Recent” every time.

– Never mind, I just found the “Select Repository” and “Switch Repository” windows.

**jps** · September 20, 2018, 9:19am

Try Switch Repository - you’ll get a Goto Anything style dialog to open a repository

**fprochazka** · September 20, 2018, 9:23am

I cant figure out how to switch the default pull strategy.
I would also like to completely disable push --force, so I don’t run it accidentaly, and only have --force-with-lease available.

is it possible?

Thanks!

**alexandrul** · September 20, 2018, 9:35am

SourceTree is able to use plink.exe and the keys from pageant. Is there a way to do the same with Sublime Merge?

**rwols** · September 20, 2018, 9:37am

Thanks @jps this looks sweet. Couple of things:

How does it handle git-hooks?
“Enter Full Screen” seems like a weird option under the Tools menu, maybe it fits better under the Windows menu?
Is this thing going to be extensible with python plugins, too?
When I scroll all the way down, I get a blank screen with three dots above.
The “from” operator is not documented when you open the search panel. i.e. when I click on “Hunk History” there’s this “from:” string in the search query but it is not documented and I don’t really understand what it is doing.

**kingkeith** · September 20, 2018, 9:45am

https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-merge

We have a custom implementation of Git for reading repositories, which drives a lot of our high performance functionality. However we defer to Git itself for operations that mutate the repository (Staging, Committing, Checking out branches, etc).

so hooks are handled by Git as normal I guess

yes, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18030933

**alexandrul** · September 20, 2018, 9:45am

"editor_argument_format": "-g ${file}:${line}:${col}",
"editor_path": "c:\\some_path\\VSCode\\Code.exe",

**IcyPalm** · September 20, 2018, 9:46am

I am not able to answer if Sublime Merge can do that natively but if you have git installed locally(normal) it can be setup to use plink:

If you do not see the screen during the install of git, make sure you have at least one session stored in putty, then try to install git again, it should now give you the option to use plink as the SSH executable

**wjdp** · September 20, 2018, 9:51am

Just installed and started playing around with it. Really cool!

Found a bug: It doesn’t seem to be respecting my .gitignore_global file. It’s located in my home directory but is symlinked to a copy in a dotfiles directory. Let me know if more details are needed.

**urschrei** · September 20, 2018, 9:51am

How can I install the smerge command?

**nicck** · September 20, 2018, 9:57am

ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Merge.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/smerge /usr/local/bin/smerge did the trick for me