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Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] Use variables for the lists of tools that support merging / diffing

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Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 23, 2012, 18:30 UTC
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On 23.07.2012 18:46, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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>> +# Tools that support both merging and diffing.
>>   __git_mergetools_common="araxis bc3 diffuse ecmerge emerge gvimdiff
>>   			kdiff3 meld opendiff p4merge tkdiff vimdiff xxdiff
>>   "
> 
> As the set of merge capable tools is not a superset of diff capable
> tools (tortoise can only merge but not diff), perhaps rename this to
> __git_diffmerge_tools or something?
Makes perfect sense.
> This patch makes sense to me, but at the same time makes [PATCH 1/5]
> a "Meh", methinks.
Yeah, I can see why. So I've renamed __git_mergetools_common to __git_diffmerge_tools and squashed with [PATCH 1/5] to make it less "Meh" as it does not stand on its own.
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Sebastian
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  1. 0/4 Various merge / diff tool related minor clean-ups and improvementsSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  2. 0/5 Various merge / diff tool related minor clean-ups and improvementsSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  3. 1/5 Sort the list of tools that support both merging and diffing alphabeticallySebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  4. 2/5 Use variables for the lists of tools that support merging / diffingSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  6. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  7. 1/4 Use variables for the lists of tools that support merging / diffingSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  9. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  10. 3/5 Explicitly list all valid diff tools and document --tool-help as an optionSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  11. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  12. mergetool: support --tool-help option like difftool doesJunio C Hamano, Jul 23, 2012
  13. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  14. mergetool: support --tool-help option like difftool doesSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  15. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  16. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  17. David AguilarJul 23, 2012
  18. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  19. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  20. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  21. Re*: mergetool: support --tool-help option like difftool doesJunio C Hamano, Aug 23, 2012
  22. David AguilarAug 23, 2012
  23. Junio C HamanoAug 23, 2012
  24. David AguilarAug 24, 2012
  25. Jens LehmannAug 26, 2012
  26. 4/5 Make sure to use Araxis' "compare" and not e.g. ImageMagick'sSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  27. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  28. Make sure to use Araxis' "compare" and not e.g. ImageMagick'sSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  29. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  30. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  31. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  32. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  33. David AguilarJul 23, 2012
  34. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  35. Andreas SchwabJul 23, 2012
  36. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  37. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  38. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  39. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  40. 5/5 Add a few more code comments and blank lines in guess_merge_toolSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012

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