Re: [QUESTION] mergetool environment variables

> I am trying to integrate a custom mergetool with a shell wrapper.
> What I get from the online help is the following description referring
> to the command and environment variables.
> 
> mergetool.<tool>.cmd 
> Specify the command to invoke the specified merge tool.
> The specified command is evaluated in shell with the
> following variables available: BASE is the name of a

> temporary file containing the common base of the files
> to be merged, if available; LOCAL is the name of a
> temporary file containing the contents of the file on
> the current branch; REMOTE is the name of a temporary
> file containing the contents of the file from the branch
> being merged; MERGED contains the name of the file
> to which the merge tool should write the results of a
> successful merge.
> 
> When I try to use this from a shell, simply with:
> #!/bin/sh
> env
> exit 1
> 
> the described environment variables: BASE, LOCAL,
> REMOTE, and MERGED, are not present.