[PATCH 9/9 v2] difftool: print list of valid tools with '--tool-help'

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Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>

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Mar 18, 2012, 01:55 UTC

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Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
---

Changes in v2:
  The glob statement used to find the mergetool options now uses the
  fully qualified path.  This insures that 'git difftool --tool-help'
  can be called from any diretory.

 Documentation/git-difftool.txt |   11 ++++++-----
 git-difftool.perl              |   17 ++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt
index aba5e76..31fc2e3 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt
@@ -36,11 +36,9 @@ OPTIONS
 
 -t <tool>::
 --tool=<tool>::
-	Use the diff tool specified by <tool>.
-	Valid diff tools are:
-	araxis, bc3, deltawalker, diffuse, emerge, ecmerge, gvimdiff,
-	kdiff3,	kompare, meld, opendiff, p4merge, tkdiff, vimdiff and
-	xxdiff.
+	Use the diff tool specified by <tool>.  Valid values include
+	emerge, kompare, meld, and vimdiff. Run `git difftool --tool-help`
+	for the list of valid <tool> settings.
 +
 If a diff tool is not specified, 'git difftool'
 will use the configuration variable `diff.tool`.  If the
@@ -68,6 +66,9 @@ of the diff post-image.  `$MERGED` is the name of the file which is
 being compared. `$BASE` is provided for compatibility
 with custom merge tool commands and has the same value as `$MERGED`.
 
+--tool-help::
+	Print a list of diff tools that may be used with `--tool`.
+
 -x <command>::
 --extcmd=<command>::
 	Specify a custom command for viewing diffs.
diff --git a/git-difftool.perl b/git-difftool.perl
index e306977..fb4e3e6 100755
--- a/git-difftool.perl
+++ b/git-difftool.perl
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 use 5.008;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
-use File::Basename qw(dirname);
+use File::Basename qw(dirname basename);
 use File::Copy;
 use File::stat;
 use File::Path qw(mkpath);
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ sub usage
 {
 	my $exitcode = shift;
 	print << 'USAGE';
-usage: git difftool [-t|--tool=<tool>] [-x|--extcmd=<cmd>]
+usage: git difftool [-t|--tool=<tool>] [--tool-help]
+                    [-x|--extcmd=<cmd>]
                     [-y|--no-prompt]   [-g|--gui]
                     [-d|--dir-diff]
                     ['git diff' options]
@@ -129,18 +130,28 @@ sub setup_dir_diff
 
 # parse command-line options. all unrecognized options and arguments
 # are passed through to the 'git diff' command.
-my ($difftool_cmd, $dirdiff, $extcmd, $gui, $help, $no_prompt, $prompt);
+my ($difftool_cmd, $dirdiff, $extcmd, $gui, $help, $no_prompt, $prompt, $tool_help);
 GetOptions('g|gui' => \$gui,
 	'd|dir-diff' => \$dirdiff,
 	'h' => \$help,
 	'prompt' => \$prompt,
 	't|tool:s' => \$difftool_cmd,
+	'tool-help' => \$tool_help,
 	'x|extcmd:s' => \$extcmd,
 	'y|no-prompt' => \$no_prompt);
 
 if (defined($help)) {
 	usage(0);
 } 
+if (defined($tool_help)) {
+	my $gitpath = Git::exec_path();
+	print "'git difftool --tool=<tool>' may be set to one of the following:\n";
+	for (glob "$gitpath/mergetools/*") {
+		next if /defaults$/;
+		print "\t" . basename($_) . "\n";
+	}
+	exit(0);
+}
 if (defined($difftool_cmd)) {
 	if (length($difftool_cmd) > 0) {
 		$ENV{GIT_DIFF_TOOL} = $difftool_cmd;

-- 
1.7.9.1.290.gbd444