From: Philippe Blain Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 00:32:28 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mergetool--lib: fix '--tool-help' to correctly show available tools Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Le 2021-01-06 à 18:06, Junio C Hamano a écrit : > Philippe Blain writes: > >>> What was the symptom before the fix? Is it just missing only some >>> tools among 30? Was there some pattern in names of missing one and >>> the ones that still got output? Or was it more like "we see nothing >>> shown"? >> ... >> Note that 'vimdiff', 'nvimdiff3' (last variant for vimdiff), >> 'bc' and 'bc4' (last variant for bc) are absent, and >> all other tools that have no variants are absent as well. > > Thanks, that is exactly the kind of "some pattern" I wanted to see > us looking for, because I wonder if it is a more robust and cheaper > (maintenance wise) approach to find one single tool that we support, > which does not have, and which is unlikely to gain, any numbered > variants. If we can find such a tool, we can grep for its name in > the output. > Or, just choose a few tools, including some variants, and grep for those? This way we are not relying on a single tool being shown for the test to pas...