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difftool-builtin fixes, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2017, #08; Mon, 20)

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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Mar 22, 2017, 16:25 UTC
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Hi Junio,
On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> * js/difftool-builtin (2017-03-15) 3 commits
>   (merged to 'next' on 2017-03-16 at 3fccb60a07)
>  + difftool: handle modified symlinks in dir-diff mode
>  + t7800: cleanup cruft left behind by tests
>  + t7800: remove whitespace before redirect
> 
>  "git difftool --dir-diff" used to die a controlled death giving a
>  "fatal" message when encountering a locally modified symbolic link,
>  but it started segfaulting since v2.12.  This has been fixed.

David fixed much more than the segfault. He fixed the underlying problem, i.e. *also* the "fatal" message.

Ciao, Johannes

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