RE: [QUESTION] mergetool environment variables

From: rsbecker@nexbridge.com <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Date: Sep 14, 2025, 00:18 UTC
Message-ID: <004101dc250d$18173950$4845abf0$@nexbridge.com>
In-Reply-To: <9a03a436-8240-4566-9383-7afbf740719e@kdbg.org>

On September 13, 2025 5:04 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote:

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>To: rsbecker@nexbridge.com
>Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
>Subject: Re: [QUESTION] mergetool environment variables
>
>Am 13.09.25 um 16:42 schrieb rsbecker@nexbridge.com:
>> Let me try to infer what is happening and please correct me if my
>> assumptions are wrong:
>I'm sorry to say that I can't help. I tried to disentangle what is going on, but this
>stuff is far too convoluted to be understood in a few minutes. I cannot tell if it is
>possible to write a mergetool that is not installed with Git.
>
>I would just copy one of the existing tool scripts and run `make install` from the Git
>source directory.

Yes, it needs to be in the git install area. Adding export BASE export LOCAL, etc., works to resolve the situation. I wonder whether that should be documented.