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Re: [PATCH] mergetool: support absolute paths to tools by git config merge.<tool>path

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Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Date
Oct 8, 2007, 22:00 UTC
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<20071008220025.GZ31659@planck.djpig.de>
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On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:22:40PM +0200, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
> This commit adds a mechanism to provide absolute paths to the
> commands called by 'git mergetool'. A path can be specified
> in the configuation variable merge.<toolname>path.

Why not merge.<toolname>.path? This would it make easy to introduce new variables of the form merge.<toolname>.<var> later if needed. I also think it is more consistent with names of existing configuration variables. (think branch.<name>.<var> or remote.<name>.<var>)

Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
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  1. mergetool: support absolute paths to tools by git config merge.<tool>pathSteffen Prohaska, Oct 8, 2007
  2. mergetool: add support for ECMergeSteffen Prohaska, Oct 8, 2007
  3. Theodore TsoOct 8, 2007
  4. Steffen ProhaskaOct 9, 2007
  5. Johannes SchindelinOct 9, 2007
  6. Steffen ProhaskaOct 9, 2007
  7. Alan HadsellOct 9, 2007
  8. Steffen ProhaskaOct 9, 2007
  9. Alan HadsellOct 9, 2007
  10. Theodore TsoOct 8, 2007
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  13. Frank LichtenheldOct 8, 2007
  14. Steffen ProhaskaOct 9, 2007
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