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Re: [PATCH] Make sure to use Araxis' "compare" and not e.g. ImageMagick's

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Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 23, 2012, 22:39 UTC
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> On the other hand, if the user has bought and installed Araxis, but
> we incorrectly identify it as unusable, the user has wasted good
> money and there is no easy recourse as far as I can see in your
> patch.
Agreed.
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> If we limit the problem space by special casing Windows installation
> (e.g. check "uname -s" or something), would it make the problem
> easier to solve?  Perhaps it is much more likely that the path the
> program is installed in can be safely identified with a call to
> "type --path compare" (bash is the only shell shipped in msysgit,
> isn't it?), and its output is likely to contain "/Program Files/Araxis/"
> as a substring, or something?

Yes, I could come up with basically a variant of my first version of the patch that is limited to Windows only and uses "type --path" instead of "which", but then again this is too non-generic for my taste. Moreover, as I'm also using Mac OS X, I'd be interested in a solution that works there, too.

I don't see a good (read generic and concise) solution to the issue. I think we should just drop my patch and not waste all of our time on it any more.

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Sebastian Schuberth
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Message 37 of 40 in “Various merge / diff tool related minor clean-ups and improvements”
  1. 0/4 Various merge / diff tool related minor clean-ups and improvementsSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  2. 0/5 Various merge / diff tool related minor clean-ups and improvementsSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  3. 1/5 Sort the list of tools that support both merging and diffing alphabeticallySebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  4. 2/5 Use variables for the lists of tools that support merging / diffingSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  6. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  7. 1/4 Use variables for the lists of tools that support merging / diffingSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  9. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  10. 3/5 Explicitly list all valid diff tools and document --tool-help as an optionSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  11. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  12. mergetool: support --tool-help option like difftool doesJunio C Hamano, Jul 23, 2012
  13. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  14. mergetool: support --tool-help option like difftool doesSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  15. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  16. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  17. David AguilarJul 23, 2012
  18. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  19. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  20. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  21. Re*: mergetool: support --tool-help option like difftool doesJunio C Hamano, Aug 23, 2012
  22. David AguilarAug 23, 2012
  23. Junio C HamanoAug 23, 2012
  24. David AguilarAug 24, 2012
  25. Jens LehmannAug 26, 2012
  26. 4/5 Make sure to use Araxis' "compare" and not e.g. ImageMagick'sSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  27. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  28. Make sure to use Araxis' "compare" and not e.g. ImageMagick'sSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  29. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  30. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  31. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  32. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  33. David AguilarJul 23, 2012
  34. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  35. Andreas SchwabJul 23, 2012
  36. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  37. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  38. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  39. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  40. 5/5 Add a few more code comments and blank lines in guess_merge_toolSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012

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