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Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] mergetools: add winmerge as a builtin tool

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Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
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May 20, 2015, 21:20 UTC
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On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Yuck.  So even though %PROGRAMFILES% and %PROGRAMFILES(X86)% look as
> if they are variables that can point at arbitrary places, they in
> reality don't?  Otherwise %PROGRAMFILES% may point at D:\Program

Correct. In the vast majority of WIndows installations these variables contain the default values.

> But of course if I view this not as a "logic" but as a "heuristics"
> that happens to do the right thing in common environments, it is
> perfectly OK ;-).
Exactly a heuristic is what it's supposed to be :-)
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Sebastian Schuberth
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  1. 1/2 mergetool--lib: set IFS for difftool and mergetoolDavid Aguilar, May 20, 2015
  2. 2/2 mergetools: add winmerge as a builtin toolDavid Aguilar, May 20, 2015
  3. SZEDER GáborMay 20, 2015
  4. David AguilarMay 22, 2015
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 22, 2015
  6. David AguilarMay 22, 2015
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 20, 2015
  8. Sebastian SchuberthMay 20, 2015
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 20, 2015
  10. Sebastian SchuberthMay 20, 2015
  11. Johannes SchindelinMay 21, 2015

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