Re: Feature Request: user defined suffix for temp files created by git-mergetool

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Hi Anatoly,


| Sent: Monday, October 3, 2016 5:18:44 PM
| 
| Hi Josef,
| 
| 
| On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Josef Ridky <jridky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| > In several projects, we are using git mergetool for comparing files from
| > different folders.
| > Unfortunately, when we have opened three files  for comparing using meld
| > tool (e.q. Old_version -- Result -- New_version),
| > we can see only name of temporary files created by mergetool in the labels
| > (e.g. foo_REMOTE -- foo_BASE -- foo_LOCAL)
| > and users (and sometime even we) are confused, which of the files should
| > they edit and save.
| 
| `git mergetool` just creates temporary files (with some temporary
| names) and calls `meld` (or `vimdiff`, etc) with the file names as
| parameters. So why wouldn't you call `meld` with the file names you
| want?


Because files, that we want, are temporary files created by git mergetool and we are not able to change their name.

Regards

Josef




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