From: Anatoly Borodin Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 15:18:44 GMT Subject: Re: Feature Request: user defined suffix for temp files created by git-mergetool Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1329039097.128066.1475476591437.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> Hi Josef, On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Josef Ridky wrote: > In several projects, we are using git mergetool for comparing files from different folders. > Unfortunately, when we have opened three files for comparing using meld tool (e.q. Old_version -- Result -- New_version), > we can see only name of temporary files created by mergetool in the labels (e.g. foo_REMOTE -- foo_BASE -- foo_LOCAL) > and users (and sometime even we) are confused, which of the files should they edit and save. `git mergetool` just creates temporary files (with some temporary names) and calls `meld` (or `vimdiff`, etc) with the file names as parameters. So why wouldn't you call `meld` with the file names you want? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Anatoly Borodin