Upgrading to IntelliJ 2017.1 changed behaviour of diff tool

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Hello,

I just upgraded to IntelliJ 2017.1. My OS is El Capitan.

When I have IntelliJ closed, I can use diff from the CLI like before.

> /usr/local/bin/idea diff file1.txt file2.txt

However, when I open IntelliJ, the same command just changes the focus from my terminal to IntelliJ, without opening the diff window.

This used to work before the upgrade.

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Does it help if you recreate the Command line launcher (use Tools - Create Command-line Launcher..)?

There is similar issue reported for earlier version btw:

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-158397

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Hi Dmitry,

I will try it out and let you know.

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Works with a laucher, thank you!

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