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Re: [PATCH] Make sure to use Araxis' "compare" and not e.g. ImageMagick's

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Jul 23, 2012, 21:26 UTC
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Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> writes:
> Please feel free to ignore the patch if you feel the heuristics is not
> sufficiently safe. I'm currently unable to come up with a safer
> solution while maintaining portability, i.e. not use "which" or doing
> rather laborious string parsing on the output of "type".
How about looking at "compare --version"?
Andreas.
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  1. 0/4 Various merge / diff tool related minor clean-ups and improvementsSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  2. 0/5 Various merge / diff tool related minor clean-ups and improvementsSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  3. 1/5 Sort the list of tools that support both merging and diffing alphabeticallySebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  4. 2/5 Use variables for the lists of tools that support merging / diffingSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  6. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  7. 1/4 Use variables for the lists of tools that support merging / diffingSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  9. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  10. 3/5 Explicitly list all valid diff tools and document --tool-help as an optionSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  11. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  12. mergetool: support --tool-help option like difftool doesJunio C Hamano, Jul 23, 2012
  13. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  14. mergetool: support --tool-help option like difftool doesSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  15. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  16. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  17. David AguilarJul 23, 2012
  18. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  19. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  20. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  21. Re*: mergetool: support --tool-help option like difftool doesJunio C Hamano, Aug 23, 2012
  22. David AguilarAug 23, 2012
  23. Junio C HamanoAug 23, 2012
  24. David AguilarAug 24, 2012
  25. Jens LehmannAug 26, 2012
  26. 4/5 Make sure to use Araxis' "compare" and not e.g. ImageMagick'sSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  27. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  28. Make sure to use Araxis' "compare" and not e.g. ImageMagick'sSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012
  29. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  30. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  31. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  32. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  33. David AguilarJul 23, 2012
  34. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  35. Andreas SchwabJul 23, 2012
  36. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  37. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  38. Junio C HamanoJul 23, 2012
  39. Sebastian SchuberthJul 23, 2012
  40. 5/5 Add a few more code comments and blank lines in guess_merge_toolSebastian Schuberth, Jul 23, 2012

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