Re: [PATCH] git-mergetool--lib.sh: fix mergetool.<tool>.* configurations ignored for known tools

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 05/06/2010 03:31, Sylvain Rabot wrote:
At this time when you define merge.tool with a known tool,
such as meld, p4merge, diffuse ... etc, mergetool.<tool>.*
configurations are ignored and git mergetool will use its
own templates.

This patch adds a detection for mergetool.<tool>.cmd configuration
in the run_merge_tool function. If the configuration is set, it will
try to run the tool with mergetool.<tool>.path if its set. It also
consider the mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode configuration.

Signed-off-by: Sylvain Rabot<sylvain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
  git-mergetool--lib.sh |   60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  1 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)


First, my apologies for only having had the time to skim this so far.

Can I just ask some basic questions about the purpose of this patch. Is it the intention that if mergetool.<tool>.cmd is set then you want to mergetool to behave 'as if' the merge tool wasn't a 'known' tool and just performed the "*)" case ?

If so, it seems like a lot of extra boiler-plate and error handling that doesn't exist in the normal "*)" case. Should we have have this in the "*)" case as well? If so, we should look to rework it so that we can re-use the code rather than duplicating it.

From a user perspective, if they want to run a "known" tool but in a way that is different from the default behaviour can't they just give it a different name, e.g. merge.tool=my_kdiff3 , mergetool.my_kdiff3.cmd=... ?

Thanks,

Charles.

--
Almost dormant mergetool maintainer.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel Development]     [Gcc Help]     [IETF Annouce]     [DCCP]     [Netdev]     [Networking]     [Security]     [V4L]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux SCSI]     [Fedora Users]