# [PATCH v2] mergetools/meld: improve backwards-compatibiilty when using "--output"

1 messages from 2017-06-19 to 2017-06-19. Participants: David Aguilar.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/46204

## David Aguilar, 2017-06-19 00:20

Subject: [PATCH v2] mergetools/meld: improve backwards-compatibiilty when using "--output"
Message-ID: <20170619002027.27346-1-davvid@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20170619002027.27346-1-davvid%40gmail.com

```
Meld 3.16.0 requires a "=" in the --output argument, as it uses
a simple hand-rolled command-line parser.

Newer versions of Meld (3.16.4, and possibly earlier) use
optparse, which accepts either "--output <file>" or
"--output=<file>".

Use "--output=<file>" for better compatibility.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
---
Changes since v1:

Fixed an "optpaarse" -> "optparse" typo in the commit message.
This patch is otherwise identical to v1.

 mergetools/meld | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mergetools/meld b/mergetools/meld
index bc178e8882..7a08470f88 100644
--- a/mergetools/meld
+++ b/mergetools/meld
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ merge_cmd () {
 
 	if test "$meld_has_output_option" = true
 	then
-		"$merge_tool_path" --output "$MERGED" \
+		"$merge_tool_path" --output="$MERGED" \
 			"$LOCAL" "$BASE" "$REMOTE"
 	else
 		"$merge_tool_path" "$LOCAL" "$MERGED" "$REMOTE"
-- 
2.13.1.453.gc0395165f3


```