Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Using the original filename suffix for the temporary input files to
> the merge tool confuses IDEs like Eclipse. This patch introduces
> a configurtion option, mergetool.tmpsuffix, which get appended to
> the temporary file name. That way the user can choose to use a
> suffix like ".tmp", which does not cause confusion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/git-mergetool.txt | 7 +++++++
> git-mergetool.sh | 10 ++++++----
> 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
No updates to Documentation/config.txt to describe the new variable?
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
> index e846c2e..80a0526 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
> @@ -89,6 +89,13 @@ Setting the `mergetool.keepBackup` configuration variable to `false`
> causes `git mergetool` to automatically remove the backup as files
> are successfully merged.
>
> +`git mergetool` may also create other temporary files for the
> +different versions involved in the merge. By default these files have
> +the same filename suffix as the file being merged. This may confuse
> +other tools in use during a long merge operation. The user can set
> +`mergetool.tmpsuffix` to be used as an extra suffix, which will be
> +appened to the temporary filename to lessen that problem.
> +
> GIT
> ---
> Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
> diff --git a/git-mergetool.sh b/git-mergetool.sh
> index 9a046b7..d7cc76c 100755
> --- a/git-mergetool.sh
> +++ b/git-mergetool.sh
> @@ -214,6 +214,8 @@ checkout_staged_file () {
> }
>
> merge_file () {
> + tmpsuffix=$(git config mergetool.tmpsuffix || true)
> +
> MERGED="$1"
>
> f=$(git ls-files -u -- "$MERGED")
> @@ -229,10 +231,10 @@ merge_file () {
> fi
>
> ext="$$$(expr "$MERGED" : '.*\(\.[^/]*\)$')"
> - BACKUP="./$MERGED.BACKUP.$ext"
> - LOCAL="./$MERGED.LOCAL.$ext"
> - REMOTE="./$MERGED.REMOTE.$ext"
> - BASE="./$MERGED.BASE.$ext"
> + BACKUP="./$MERGED.BACKUP.$ext$tmpsuffix"
> + LOCAL="./$MERGED.LOCAL.$ext$tmpsuffix"
> + REMOTE="./$MERGED.REMOTE.$ext$tmpsuffix"
> + BASE="./$MERGED.BASE.$ext$tmpsuffix"
>
> base_mode=$(git ls-files -u -- "$MERGED" | awk '{if ($3==1) print $1;}')
> local_mode=$(git ls-files -u -- "$MERGED" | awk '{if ($3==2) print $1;}')
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