Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Auto-generate mergetool lists

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 28, 2013, 21:50 UTC
Message-ID: <7vk3qxugdg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130128210136.GC7498@serenity.lan>

John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> writes:

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> I've had a quick look and it's quite straightforward to build on top of
> this to get an output format like this:
>
>     'git mergetool --tool-<tool>' may be set to one of the following:
>                     araxis
>...
>                     vimdiff2
>
>             user-defined:
>                     mytool
>
>     The following tools are valid, but not currently available:
>                     bc3
>...
>                     xxdiff
>
>             user-defined:
>                     mybrokentool
>
>     Some of the tools listed above only work in a windowed
>     environment. If run in a terminal-only session, they will fail.
>
> I don't think the suffix form would be too hard either - it just
> requires moving an explicit sort into the top-level shot_tool_help
> function.

I tend to think that one-tool-per-line format like the above looks nicer.

What are the situations where a valid user-defined tools is unavailable, by the way?