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feature request mergetool, skip, abort

From
Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 20, 2009, 16:39 UTC
Message-ID
<81bfc67a0901200839q361923f1xb25ddadfdac37981@mail.gmail.com>

firstly my patch sucks, and I know it. but hopefully it'll give some idea of what I'm trying to do and someone can implement it properly.

basically there are some files, that I can't merge with git, but I need to merge other files before I can fix those and I like to use mergetool, so I want a way to skip the files I'm not going to be able to merge.

-- 
Caleb Cushing

http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com


From b43603bcd408cccea7ba55041a8356d0ca536989 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:33:30 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] preliminary merge/skip/abort patch

---
 git-mergetool.sh |   22 ++++++++++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-mergetool.sh b/git-mergetool.sh
index 00e1337..c0b27ed 100755
--- a/git-mergetool.sh
+++ b/git-mergetool.sh
@@ -177,11 +177,25 @@ merge_file () {
     describe_file "$local_mode" "local" "$LOCAL"
     describe_file "$remote_mode" "remote" "$REMOTE"
     if "$prompt" = true; then
-	printf "Hit return to start merge resolution tool (%s): " "$merge_tool"
-	read ans
-    fi
+		while true; do
+		printf "Use (m)erge file or (s)skip file, or (a)bort? (%s): " \
+		"$merge_tool"
+		read ans
+		case "$ans" in
+			[mM]*)
+			break
+			;;
+			[sS]*)
+			return 0 #go to the next file, needs to clean up
+			;;
+			[aA]*)
+			return 1 #should exit immediately, doesn't
+			;;
+		esac
+		done
+	fi
 
-    case "$merge_tool" in
+	case "$merge_tool" in
 	kdiff3)
 	    if base_present ; then
 		("$merge_tool_path" --auto --L1 "$MERGED (Base)" --L2 "$MERGED (Local)" --L3 "$MERGED (Remote)" \
-- 
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