On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:54:25PM -0800, David Aguilar wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Is there a way for me to programatically tell what merge.tool and > > diff.tool could be enabled for a particular source checkout of Git > > regardless of what platform am I on (that is, even though I won't > > touch Windows, I want to see 'tortoise' appear in the output of such > > a procedure)? We could generate a small text file from the Makefile > > in Documentation and include it when building the manual pages if > > such a procedure is available. > > That's a good idea. > Here's one way... (typed into gmail, so probably broken) > > LF=' > ' > mergetools= > difftools= > scriptlets="$(git --exec-path)"/mergetools > > for script in "$scriptlets"/* > do > tool="$(basename "$script")" > if test "$tool" = "defaults" > then > continue > fi > . "$scriptlets"/defaults > can_diff && difftools="$difftools$tool$LF" > can_merge && mergetools="$mergetools$tool$LF" > done I don't think this will work since the names of the valid tools are not necessarily the same as the names of the scriptlets - this is the exact issue that prompted my patches to git-difftool yesterday. The best option I can see given what's currently available is something like this: -- >8 -- sed -n -e '/^list_merge_tool_candidates/,/^}/ { /tools=/ { s/.*tools=// s/"//g s/\$tools// s/ /\n/g p } }' git-mergetool--lib.sh |sort |uniq |while read -r tool do test -z "$tool" && continue ( . git-mergetool--lib && setup_tool $tool # Use can_diff and can_merge here. ) done -- 8< -- John -- 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