Re: [PATCH] mergetool: make Apple's FileMerge available as a merge_tool

From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Jun 17, 2007, 18:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20070617181200.GA15218@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <B12626B9-766E-4EA4-888F-B3E2DA889D15@zib.de>

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 06:13:11PM +0200, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

> 
> Hmm, now I found out that opendiff, which was already available
> as an option, actually launches FileMerge.

Yep.

> I wasn't aware of this fact. git-mergetool proposed to use vimdiff
> although I had preferred the graphical application FileMerge, which
> would have been launched by opendiff.

Do you know of a way of determining whether or not under MacOS X, a program can easily determine whether or not the user is sitting in front of the graphical display, as opposed to coming in via an SSH connection?

If so, we could use that under MacOS to make the defaults be to use opendiff under those circumstances.

Realistically, though, past a certain point we can only be so smart with the hueristics. If you know what you want, you should really set the merge.tool config option in your ~/.gitconfig file, and be done with it.

> Don't know if my patch makes any sense. Probably a note in the
> documentation that opendiff launches the GUI would be nice.

Maybe a change so that opendiff is listed as "opendiff (aka FileMerge)", perhaps?

						- Ted