Hi,
I've noticed that the p4merge shell script could do with some
improvement when it comes to merging. Because p4merge throws up an
error when one of the files it's given to diff is "/dev/null", git needs
to create a temporary empty file and pass that to p4merge when diffing a
file that has been created/deleted (eg. create file, git add ., git diff
--cached).
At the moment, the hack I'm using, which works, is to create a
c:/blank.txt file which is an empty file, and modify
"libexec/git-core/mergetools/p4merge" to start with this:
diff_cmd () {
if [ ! -f "$LOCAL" ]
then
LOCAL="C:/blank.txt"
fi
if [ ! -f "$REMOTE" ]
then
REMOTE="C:/blank.txt"
fi
"$merge_tool_path" "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE"
}
Obviously, this isn't good enough because c:/blank.txt probably won't
exist on the system. It would be nice for the temporary blank file to
have the same extension as the one that's been added, so we could diff
(say) c:/users/jez/Temp/abc123_newFile.foo
c:/development/bar/newfile.foo. However, I can't see a way to do this
purely from within the shell script (even `mktemp` doesn't exist on all
systems so that isn't good enough). I believe git needs to create this
temporary blank file itself, much like it creates a temporary file for
the previous version of a file that's been modified when it's being
diff'd. It then needs to expose the location of this temporary file as
a variable; say $LOCALBLANK. So, we would be able to modify the shell
script to this:
diff_cmd () {
if [ ! -f "$LOCAL" ]
then
LOCAL=$LOCALBLANK
fi
if [ ! -f "$REMOTE" ]
then
REMOTE=$REMOTEBLANK
fi
"$merge_tool_path" "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE"
}
Thoughts? Is there an easier way to do this?
--
Best regards,
Jeremy Morton (Jez)
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