Re: [PATCH] Add Code Compare v2.80.4 as a merge / diff tool for Windows

> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>>> I still agree that not listing all mergetools in multiple places is a
>>> good thing. But doing the whole stuff of extending --tool-help for
>>> git-mergetool and git-difftool to return a simple list that can be
>>> used in git-completion.bash etc. IMHO is a separate topic and out of
>>> scope of this patch.
>>
>> Exactly.  If you know that is the long term direction, I would have
>> preferred you _not_ to touch any existing descriptions of the tools
>> (not even changing them to refer to "--tool-help") in this patch, in
>> order to avoid unnecessary conflicts with the topic of unifying the
>> list of tool backends, which can be written and cooked separately.
>
> To the the best of my knowledge there currently no such topic
> underway, and even if it was, it would be unclear how long it would
> take for integration. If I was not touching the existing descriptions
> of the tools, and a Git version was to be released after accepting my
> patch but before the --tool-help topic is merged, that would leave the
> documentation in a wrong state. I was just trying to be consistent by
> also touching the descriptions, which IMHO is the correct thing to do
> in the short term, as you yourself say the topic to make use of
> --tool-help is a long term goal.