From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:46:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Teach git mergetool to use custom commands defined at config time
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802170045210.30505@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20080217002029.GA504@hashpling.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Charles Bailey wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 11:37:31PM +0100, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
> 
> > Why not just add the tools you have in mind to git mergetool?  If 
> > everyone did that eventually we would have direct support for a rather 
> > long list of tools.  This would be the easiest solution for the end 
> > user: He could just choose the preferred tool and use it.  The 
> > invocation of each merge tool would be coded in mergetool.  The exact 
> > command line could be fine tuned and would be reviewed by other git 
> > developers.
> > 
> 
> I have to disagree with this approach.

So you'd rather have the end users do the same work for the same tool over 
and over again?

Ciao,
Dscho