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[PATCH] mergetool-lib: fix default tool selection

From
Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date
Jun 19, 2015, 09:30 UTC
Message-ID
<a9844fc48424d5caf27cc2189af3d9d867d01833.1434706187.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net>

When no diff nor merge tool is specified (config, option), mergetool-lib is supposed to choose a default tool from a set of tools. That set is constructed dynamically depending on the environment (graphical, editor setting) as a space separated string of tool names.

719518f (mergetool--lib: set IFS for difftool and mergetool, 2015-05-20) introduced a newline as IFS which breaks the parsing of the space separated list into items, resulting in a failed search for an available tool.

Set IFS to a space locally for the tool search.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
---
 git-mergetool--lib.sh | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/git-mergetool--lib.sh b/git-mergetool--lib.sh
index 14b039d..54ac8e4 100644
--- a/git-mergetool--lib.sh
+++ b/git-mergetool--lib.sh
@@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ guess_merge_tool () {
 	EOF
 
 	# Loop over each candidate and stop when a valid merge tool is found.
+	IFS=' '
 	for tool in $tools
 	do
 		is_available "$tool" && echo "$tool" && return 0
-- 
2.4.4.610.gea30ab1.dirty
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  1. mergetool-lib: fix default tool selectionMichael J Gruber, Jun 19, 2015
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 19, 2015

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