Re: Mergetool generating blank files (1.5.3)

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On 9/27/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > "Kelvie Wong" <kelvie@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> >> Egads, it's alive!
> >>
> >> I was in a subdirectory (most of my work is in that one subdirectory
> >> anyways :p), but running it on the top level did indeed work as
> >> expected.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >
> > Thanks for spotting a bug.  It claims to be subdirectory safe at
> > the top of the script but apparently it isn't.
> >
> > And I do not see a reason why it cannot be made subdirectory
> > safe.
>
> It _could_ be just the matter of doing this, although I cannot
> test it right now (at work and have no access to any of the
> backends).  Care to try it from a subdirectory and report
> failure or success?
>
> ---
>
>  git-mergetool.sh |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-mergetool.sh b/git-mergetool.sh
> index a0e44f7..018db58 100755
> --- a/git-mergetool.sh
> +++ b/git-mergetool.sh
> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ USAGE='[--tool=tool] [file to merge] ...'
>  SUBDIRECTORY_OK=Yes
>  . git-sh-setup
>  require_work_tree
> +cd_to_toplevel
>
>  # Returns true if the mode reflects a symlink
>  is_symlink () {
>

At least with emerge, this isn't so simple -- emacs tries to save it
as ${absolute_PWD}/${PWD_relative_to_toplevel}/$filename
(which of course doesn't exist yet).

In meld it works fine, however; haven't tried the other ones.
-- 
Kelvie
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