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[PATCH (resend) 2/2] difftool: put the cursor on the editable file for Vim

From
David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 19, 2009, 05:34 UTC
Message-ID
<1232343269-27665-1-git-send-email-davvid@gmail.com>

You only need to edit worktree files when comparing against the worktree. Put the cursor automatically into its window for vimdiff and gvimdiff to avoid doing <C-w>l every time.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
---
 contrib/difftool/git-difftool-helper |    8 ++++++--
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/difftool/git-difftool-helper b/contrib/difftool/git-difftool-helper
index 0b266e3..a6f862f 100755
--- a/contrib/difftool/git-difftool-helper
+++ b/contrib/difftool/git-difftool-helper
@@ -78,12 +78,16 @@ launch_merge_tool () {
 		"$merge_tool_path" -o "$MERGED" "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE"
 		;;
 
-	meld|vimdiff)
+	meld)
 		"$merge_tool_path" "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE"
 		;;
 
+	vimdiff)
+		"$merge_tool_path" -c "wincmd l" "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE"
+		;;
+
 	gvimdiff)
-		"$merge_tool_path" -f "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE"
+		"$merge_tool_path" -c "wincmd l" -f "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE"
 		;;
 
 	xxdiff)
-- 
1.6.1.149.g7bbd8
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