Re: [PATCH v3] mergetools/meld: improve compatibiilty with Meld on macOS X
On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 10:10 PM, David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The macOS X fork of Meld[1] requires a "=" in the "--output"
> argument, as it uses a wrapper[2] script that munges the
> "--output" argument before calling into the common "meld"
> script.
>
> The macOS X wrapper script[2] accepts "--output=<filename>"
> only, despite the fact that the underlying meld code accepts
> both "--output <filename" and "--output=<filename>"[3].
>
> All versions of meld which accept "--output" accept it in
> the "--output=<filename>" form, so use "--output=<file>" for
> maximum compatibility.
Aha, then if that's the case this looks fine to me. Thanks!
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> [1] https://github.com/yousseb/meld
> [2] https://github.com/yousseb/meld/blob/master/osx/Meld
> [3] https://github.com/yousseb/meld/issues/42
>
> Reported-by: Matthew Groth <mgroth49@gmail.com>
> Helped-by: Samuel Lijin <sxlijin@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
> ---
> I cloned the meld repo and could not find the code reported in the original
> issue, but I did find that same exact code existed in a macOS fork.
>
> After more investigation, this turned out to be a macOS-only issue. The
> commit message has been updated to better reflect what's really going on.
>
> mergetools/meld | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mergetools/meld b/mergetools/meld
> index bc178e8882..7a08470f88 100644
> --- a/mergetools/meld
> +++ b/mergetools/meld
> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ merge_cmd () {
>
> if test "$meld_has_output_option" = true
> then
> - "$merge_tool_path" --output "$MERGED" \
> + "$merge_tool_path" --output="$MERGED" \
> "$LOCAL" "$BASE" "$REMOTE"
> else
> "$merge_tool_path" "$LOCAL" "$MERGED" "$REMOTE"
> --
> 2.13.1.453.gc0395165f3
>Samuel Lijin <sxlijin@gmail.com>