# feature request mergetool, skip, abort

3 messages from 2009-01-20 to 2009-01-21. Participants: Caleb Cushing, Charles Bailey.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/17272

## Caleb Cushing, 2009-01-20 16:39

Subject: feature request mergetool, skip, abort
Message-ID: <81bfc67a0901200839q361923f1xb25ddadfdac37981@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/81bfc67a0901200839q361923f1xb25ddadfdac37981%40mail.gmail.com

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firstly my patch sucks, and I know it. but hopefully it'll give some
idea of what I'm trying to do and someone can implement it properly.

basically there are some files, that I can't merge with git, but I
need to merge other files before I can fix those and I like to use
mergetool, so I want a way to skip the files I'm not going to be able
to merge.

-- 
Caleb Cushing

http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com


From b43603bcd408cccea7ba55041a8356d0ca536989 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:33:30 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] preliminary merge/skip/abort patch

---
 git-mergetool.sh |   22 ++++++++++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-mergetool.sh b/git-mergetool.sh
index 00e1337..c0b27ed 100755
--- a/git-mergetool.sh
+++ b/git-mergetool.sh
@@ -177,11 +177,25 @@ merge_file () {
     describe_file "$local_mode" "local" "$LOCAL"
     describe_file "$remote_mode" "remote" "$REMOTE"
     if "$prompt" = true; then
-	printf "Hit return to start merge resolution tool (%s): " "$merge_tool"
-	read ans
-    fi
+		while true; do
+		printf "Use (m)erge file or (s)skip file, or (a)bort? (%s): " \
+		"$merge_tool"
+		read ans
+		case "$ans" in
+			[mM]*)
+			break
+			;;
+			[sS]*)
+			return 0 #go to the next file, needs to clean up
+			;;
+			[aA]*)
+			return 1 #should exit immediately, doesn't
+			;;
+		esac
+		done
+	fi
 
-    case "$merge_tool" in
+	case "$merge_tool" in
 	kdiff3)
 	    if base_present ; then
 		("$merge_tool_path" --auto --L1 "$MERGED (Base)" --L2 "$MERGED (Local)" --L3 "$MERGED (Remote)" \
-- 
1.6.1


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## Charles Bailey, 2009-01-21 11:22

Subject: Re: feature request mergetool, skip, abort
Message-ID: <20090121112236.GC18488@hashpling.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090121112236.GC18488%40hashpling.org
In-Reply-To: <81bfc67a0901200839q361923f1xb25ddadfdac37981@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:39:59AM -0500, Caleb Cushing wrote:
> firstly my patch sucks, and I know it. but hopefully it'll give some
> idea of what I'm trying to do and someone can implement it properly.
> 
> basically there are some files, that I can't merge with git, but I
> need to merge other files before I can fix those and I like to use
> mergetool, so I want a way to skip the files I'm not going to be able
> to merge.
> 

For some reason I couldn't see a patch, but I like the idea of this
from the description and I was at very early stage of working on
something similar myself but it stalled due to other commitments.

For the moment the only way to 'skip' files is by passing full paths
of what you *don't* want to skip to mergetool which isn't really the
same thing at all.

-- 
Charles Bailey
http://ccgi.hashpling.plus.com/blog/

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## Caleb Cushing, 2009-01-21 14:26

Subject: Re: feature request mergetool, skip, abort
Message-ID: <81bfc67a0901210626i7cd75d1dh77c9cfae8b23b5c5@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/81bfc67a0901210626i7cd75d1dh77c9cfae8b23b5c5%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <20090121112236.GC18488@hashpling.org>

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patch was an attachement.

after looking through the list and seeing the conventions I've a fully
working one now, so I'm going to start a new thread with it.
-- 
Caleb Cushing

http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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