From: David Aguilar Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:33:54 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] mergetool-lib: call vim in readonly mode for diffs Message-ID: <20110227223350.GA37866@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7v62s7anp0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:01:15PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Michael J Gruber writes: > > > When [g]vimdiff is called for files which are opened already, the editor > > complains about the existing swap file. But we do not want to write > > anything when called from difftool. So, make difftool use "-R" for the > > vim family. > > Makes sense. Maint-worthy? I think this would be good in maint. thanks, -- David