From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:58:30 GMT
Subject: Re: Mergetool generating blank files (1.5.3)
Message-ID: <7vhclfubh5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <94ccbe710709271224rc65b6f4k8b68419629ed5b45@mail.gmail.com>

"Kelvie Wong" <kelvie@ieee.org> writes:

> I've tried all of the ones that were supported, the result is the same
> -- blank files in all three windows.
>
> It is because git mergetool fails to generate these files for whatever
> reason (the filebasename.{REMOTE,LOCAL,BASE}.* files).  I don't know
> why this happens.

Can you run git-mergetool under "sh -x"?

That is,

	$ sh -x git-mergetool

around ll.160-170 these files are created.