shell script that configures git to use WinMerge as the default tool to handle conflicts

git-mergetool-winmerge-setup.sh

#!/bin/sh

#
# This script will make WinMerge your default tool for diff and merge.
# It must run inside git bash (on Windows)
#

# If your WinMerge is in other place then this one, please edit
WINMERGE_SCRIPT="winmerge-merge.sh"

#
# Global setup
#
git config --global mergetool.prompt false
git config --global mergetool.keepBackup false
git config --global mergetool.keepTemporaries false

#
# Adding winmerge as a mergetool
#
git config --global merge.tool winmerge
git config --global mergetool.winmerge.name WinMerge
git config --global mergetool.winmerge.trustExitCode true
git config --global mergetool.winmerge.cmd "$WINMERGE_SCRIPT \$LOCAL \$REMOTE \$BASE \$MERGED"

#
# Adding winmerge as a difftool
#
git config --global diff.tool winmerge
git config --global difftool.winmerge.name WinMerge
git config --global difftool.winmerge.trustExitCode true
git config --global difftool.winmerge.cmd "$WINMERGE_SCRIPT \$LOCAL \$REMOTE"

winmerge-merge.sh

#!/bin/sh
echo Launching WinMergeU.exe: $1 $2 $3 $4
"C:/Program Files (x86)/WinMerge/WinMergeU.exe" -e -u -dl "Local" -dr "Remote" "$1" "$2" "$3" "$4"

nice, but didn't work for me automatically.

this works:
after running your script, i manually changed in .gitconfig
cmd = winmerge.sh $LOCAL $REMOTE $BASE $MERGED
to
cmd = ~/winmerge.sh $LOCAL $REMOTE $BASE $MERGED

(as you posted here: https://gist.github.com/758776#gistcomment-34374)

I guess you just don't have put winmerge.sh in a folder present in the PATH.

How do you then call winmerge using git and your difftool command on one file or between two commits is what I am missing?
I tried

git difftool my_file.txt

and

git difftool

without success. Nothing happened! Would you help a newcomer to git? Thank you.