Re: [PATCH 6/7] mergetools: Fix difftool/mergetool --tool-help listing for vim

> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:38 AM, John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 01:43:53AM -0800, David Aguilar wrote:
>>> "git difftool --tool-help" and "git mergetool --tool-help" incorreclty
>>> list "vim" as being an unavailable tool.  This is because they attempt
>>> to find a tool named according to the mergetool scriptlet instead of the Git-
>>> recognized tool name.
>>
>> Actually, after my patches both git-difftool and git-mergetool get this
>> right since list_merge_tool_candidates lists vimdiff and gvimdiff.
>>
>>> vimdiff, vimdiff2, gvimdiff, and gvimdiff2 are all provided by the "vim"
>>> scriptlet.  This required git-mergetool--lib to special-case it when
>>> setting up the tool.
>>>
>>> Remove the exception for "vim" and allow the scriptlets to be found
>>> naturally by using symlinks to a single "vimdiff" scriptlet.
>>
>> I wonder if it would be better to make these single-line scripts instead
>> of symlinks:
>>
>>     . "$MERGE_TOOLS_DIR"/vimdiff
>>
>> where we make git-mergetool--lib.sh export:
>>
>>     MERGE_TOOLS_DIR=$(git --exec-path)/mergetools
>
> That sounds like the way to go.