Re: [PATCH 6/8 v2] sh-tools: add a run_merge_tool function

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On  0, Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@xxxxxx> wrote:
> James Pickens, 31.03.2009:
> > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:11 AM, David Aguilar <davvid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > This function launches merge tools and will be used to refactor
> > > git-(diff|merge)tool.

sorry this whole series is being rewriten...


> > 
> > Thanks for writing difftool; I find it quite useful.  I tried it with
> > tkdiff, and noticed that it shows the 'merge preview' window even though it
> > isn't doing a merge.  If a user with unstaged changes were to carelessly
> > click the 'save and exit' button, his changes could be lost.  So I think
> > it's a good idea to stop the merge preview window from showing up under
> > difftool.  To do that I think you just have to remove the '-o "$MERGED"'
> > option to tkdiff.
> 
> This mail made me see an issue with your patch series. Sorry, I haven't
> seen this earlier, my review was just scratching the surface, I merely
> applied it and looked through it, but didn't actually test it. Lack of
> time.
> 
> The invocations seem to be appropriate only for mergetool, it is just
> the invocations from the old git-mergetool.sh, not from the old
> git-difftool-helper.sh. This means, git-difftool opens 3 files instead
> of 2.
> 
> I think there are preset diff tools, which opened 3 files instead of 2
> before this series (I just tested kdiff3, it opened 3 files). Seems to
> be originated from the fact, that they were initially copied from
> git-mergetool.sh.
> 
> Markus
> 

-- 
		David
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