From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 17:31:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mergetool: Make ECMerge use the settings as specified by the user in the GUI
Message-ID: <7vy76g4uis.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <183DBDB1-99BE-42C5-91DE-2488046164B7@zib.de>

Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:

> On May 6, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:
>
>> When run from the command line, ECMerge does not automatically use
>> the same
>> settings for a merge / diff that it would use when starting the GUI
>> and loading
>> files manually. In the first case the built-in factory defaults
>> would be used,
>> while in the second case the settings the user has specified in the
>> GUI would
>> be used, which can be misleading. Specifying the "--default" command
>> line
>> option changes this behavior so that always the user specfified GUI
>> settings
>> are used.
>
> I tested the change and propose to take the patch.  I needed,
> however, to remove dos line endings from the patch before it
> applied cleanly.

Thanks, I did not have that "apply" problem.  

Queued.