Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] mergetools: add winmerge as a builtin tool

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On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> David Aguilar <davvid@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> +     for directory in $(env | grep -Ei '^PROGRAM(FILES(\(X86\))?|W6432)=' |
>> +             cut -d '=' -f 2- | sort -u)
>
> Is the final "sort" really desired?  I am wondering if there are
> fixed precedence/preference order among variants of %PROGRAMFILES%
> environment variables that the users on the platform are expected
> to stick to, but the "sort" is sorting by the absolute pathnames of
> where these things are, which may not reflect that order.

I did add the sort (and -u) by intention, to ensure that "C:\Program
Files" (which is what %PROGRAMFILES% expands to by default) comes
before "C:\Program Files (x86)" (which is what %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%
expands to by default), so that programs of the OS-native bitness are
preferred.

-- 
Sebastian Schuberth
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