Re: [PATCH 0/1] mergetools/vimdiff: add vimdiff1 merge tool variant

> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 01:45:16PM -0500, Philippe Blain wrote:
>> I think it would be good to add a short note about these variants somewhere
>> in Documentation/git-mergetool.txt. Might be in this patch, or not if you don't
>> feel like it...
>> 
>> Going further, we could even add a short (few words) description of each tool
>> and have that description show up in the output of  'git mergetool --tool-help',
>> something like this:
>> 
>> $ git mergetool --tool-help
>> 'git mergetool --tool=<tool>' may be set to one of the following:
>> 		emerge		Emacs (Emerge)
>> 		opendiff	Apple FileMerge
>> 		vimdiff		Vim (??)
>> 		vimdiff2	Vim (3 panes)
>> 		vimdiff3	Vim (4 panes)
>
> Great suggestions, thanks. A little explanation would be very helpful --
> I've been confused by those variants too and wondered why I might want
> to use one over another.
>
> I'll roll those into this patch.