# [PATCH] difftool: add a -y shortcut for --no-prompt

2 messages from 2009-03-25 to 2009-03-28. Participants: David Aguilar, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/18528

## David Aguilar, 2009-03-25 06:29

Subject: [PATCH] difftool: add a -y shortcut for --no-prompt
Message-ID: <1237962599-29625-1-git-send-email-davvid@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1237962599-29625-1-git-send-email-davvid%40gmail.com

```
This is another consistency cleanup to make git-difftool's options
match git-mergetool.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
---

This also fixes the style used for the -h option which I should
have caught in my previous patch.  Doh!

 Documentation/git-difftool.txt |    3 ++-
 git-difftool.perl              |    6 +++---
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt
index 23070c1..be1020d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-difftool.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-difftool.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-difftool - Show changes using common diff tools
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git difftool' [--tool=<tool>] [--no-prompt] [<'git diff' options>]
+'git difftool' [--tool=<tool>] [-y|--no-prompt] [<'git diff' options>]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ to 'git-diff' and accepts the same options and arguments.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
+-y::
 --no-prompt::
 	Do not prompt before launching a diff tool.
 
diff --git a/git-difftool.perl b/git-difftool.perl
index 207dd50..5bc64d5 100755
--- a/git-difftool.perl
+++ b/git-difftool.perl
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ my $DIR = abs_path(dirname($0));
 sub usage
 {
 	print << 'USAGE';
-usage: git difftool [--tool=<tool>] [--no-prompt] ["git diff" options]
+usage: git difftool [--tool=<tool>] [-y|--no-prompt] ["git diff" options]
 USAGE
 	exit 1;
 }
@@ -60,11 +60,11 @@ sub generate_command
 			$ENV{GIT_DIFF_TOOL} = substr($arg, 7);
 			next;
 		}
-		if ($arg eq '--no-prompt') {
+		if ($arg eq '-y' || '--no-prompt') {
 			$ENV{GIT_DIFFTOOL_NO_PROMPT} = 'true';
 			next;
 		}
-		if ($arg eq '-h' or $arg eq '--help') {
+		if ($arg eq '-h' || $arg eq '--help') {
 			usage();
 		}
 		push @command, $arg;
-- 
1.6.2.1.303.g63699

```

## Junio C Hamano, 2009-03-28 08:56

Subject: Re: [PATCH] difftool: add a -y shortcut for --no-prompt
Message-ID: <7veiwivxel.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7veiwivxel.fsf%40gitster.siamese.dyndns.org
In-Reply-To: <1237962599-29625-1-git-send-email-davvid@gmail.com>

```
David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> writes:

> This is another consistency cleanup to make git-difftool's options
> match git-mergetool.
> ...
> @@ -60,11 +60,11 @@ sub generate_command
>  			$ENV{GIT_DIFF_TOOL} = substr($arg, 7);
>  			next;
>  		}
> -		if ($arg eq '--no-prompt') {
> +		if ($arg eq '-y' || '--no-prompt') {

This was the typo that broke 'pu'; I fixed it up and re-queued the series.

```