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[PATCH v2] mergetools/p4merge: Honor $TMPDIR for the /dev/null placeholder

From
David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 21, 2012, 06:57 UTC
Message-ID
<1356073023-15376-1-git-send-email-davvid@gmail.com>

Use $TMPDIR when creating the /dev/null placeholder for p4merge. This keeps it out of the current directory.

Reported-by: Jeremy Morton <admin@game-point.net>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
---
No mktemp usage in this round.
 mergetools/p4merge | 27 +++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mergetools/p4merge b/mergetools/p4merge
index 295361a..52f7c8f 100644
--- a/mergetools/p4merge
+++ b/mergetools/p4merge
@@ -1,29 +1,21 @@
 diff_cmd () {
+	empty_file=
+
 	# p4merge does not like /dev/null
-	rm_local=
-	rm_remote=
 	if test "/dev/null" = "$LOCAL"
 	then
-		LOCAL="./p4merge-dev-null.LOCAL.$$"
-		>"$LOCAL"
-		rm_local=true
+		LOCAL="$(create_empty_file)"
 	fi
 	if test "/dev/null" = "$REMOTE"
 	then
-		REMOTE="./p4merge-dev-null.REMOTE.$$"
-		>"$REMOTE"
-		rm_remote=true
+		REMOTE="$(create_empty_file)"
 	fi
 
 	"$merge_tool_path" "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE"
 
-	if test -n "$rm_local"
-	then
-		rm -f "$LOCAL"
-	fi
-	if test -n "$rm_remote"
+	if test -n "$empty_file"
 	then
-		rm -f "$REMOTE"
+		rm -f "$empty_file"
 	fi
 }
 
@@ -33,3 +25,10 @@ merge_cmd () {
 	"$merge_tool_path" "$BASE" "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE" "$MERGED"
 	check_unchanged
 }
+
+create_empty_file () {
+	empty_file="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/git-difftool-p4merge-empty-file.$$"
+	>"$empty_file"
+
+	printf "$empty_file"
+}
-- 
1.8.1.rc2.6.g18499ba
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