# [PATCH v3] mergetools/p4merge: Honor $TMPDIR for the /dev/null placeholder

1 messages from 2012-12-27 to 2012-12-27. Participants: David Aguilar.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/32463

## David Aguilar, 2012-12-27 00:45

Subject: [PATCH v3] mergetools/p4merge: Honor $TMPDIR for the /dev/null placeholder
Message-ID: <1356569129-10024-1-git-send-email-davvid@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1356569129-10024-1-git-send-email-davvid%40gmail.com

```
Use $TMPDIR when creating the /dev/null placeholder for p4merge.
This prevents users from finding a seemingly random untracked file
in their worktree.

This is different than what mergetool does with $LOCAL and
$REMOTE because those files exist to aid users when resolving
merges.  p4merge's /dev/null placeholder is not helpful in that
situation so it is sensible to keep it out of the worktree.

Reported-by: Jeremy Morton <admin@game-point.net>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
---
v3 revised the commit message to better justify the change.
This is a replacement for what's current in 'next'.

 mergetools/p4merge | 27 +++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mergetools/p4merge b/mergetools/p4merge
index 295361a..52f7c8f 100644
--- a/mergetools/p4merge
+++ b/mergetools/p4merge
@@ -1,29 +1,21 @@
 diff_cmd () {
+	empty_file=
+
 	# p4merge does not like /dev/null
-	rm_local=
-	rm_remote=
 	if test "/dev/null" = "$LOCAL"
 	then
-		LOCAL="./p4merge-dev-null.LOCAL.$$"
-		>"$LOCAL"
-		rm_local=true
+		LOCAL="$(create_empty_file)"
 	fi
 	if test "/dev/null" = "$REMOTE"
 	then
-		REMOTE="./p4merge-dev-null.REMOTE.$$"
-		>"$REMOTE"
-		rm_remote=true
+		REMOTE="$(create_empty_file)"
 	fi
 
 	"$merge_tool_path" "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE"
 
-	if test -n "$rm_local"
-	then
-		rm -f "$LOCAL"
-	fi
-	if test -n "$rm_remote"
+	if test -n "$empty_file"
 	then
-		rm -f "$REMOTE"
+		rm -f "$empty_file"
 	fi
 }
 
@@ -33,3 +25,10 @@ merge_cmd () {
 	"$merge_tool_path" "$BASE" "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE" "$MERGED"
 	check_unchanged
 }
+
+create_empty_file () {
+	empty_file="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/git-difftool-p4merge-empty-file.$$"
+	>"$empty_file"
+
+	printf "$empty_file"
+}
-- 
1.8.1.rc3.11.g86c3e6e

```