# [PATCH v3] mergetools/meld: improve compatibiilty with Meld on macOS X

2 messages from 2017-06-19 to 2017-06-19. Participants: David Aguilar, Samuel Lijin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/46205

## David Aguilar, 2017-06-19 02:10

Subject: [PATCH v3] mergetools/meld: improve compatibiilty with Meld on macOS X
Message-ID: <20170619021033.22968-1-davvid@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20170619021033.22968-1-davvid%40gmail.com

```
The macOS X fork of Meld[1] requires a "=" in the "--output"
argument, as it uses a wrapper[2] script that munges the
"--output" argument before calling into the common "meld"
script.

The macOS X wrapper script[2] accepts "--output=<filename>"
only, despite the fact that the underlying meld code accepts
both "--output <filename" and "--output=<filename>"[3].

All versions of meld which accept "--output" accept it in
the "--output=<filename>" form, so use "--output=<file>" for
maximum compatibility.

[1] https://github.com/yousseb/meld
[2] https://github.com/yousseb/meld/blob/master/osx/Meld
[3] https://github.com/yousseb/meld/issues/42

Reported-by: Matthew Groth <mgroth49@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Samuel Lijin <sxlijin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
---
I cloned the meld repo and could not find the code reported in the original
issue, but I did find that same exact code existed in a macOS fork.

After more investigation, this turned out to be a macOS-only issue.  The
commit message has been updated to better reflect what's really going on.

 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


```

## Samuel Lijin, 2017-06-19 03:02

Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mergetools/meld: improve compatibiilty with Meld on macOS X
Message-ID: <CAJZjrdV5k2nUm3SRrA-AqQ=fJBm1CeLc1VLmGkWL1Wh+p9MNDg@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAJZjrdV5k2nUm3SRrA-AqQ%3DfJBm1CeLc1VLmGkWL1Wh%2Bp9MNDg%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <20170619021033.22968-1-davvid@gmail.com>

```
On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 10:10 PM, David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> wrote:
> The macOS X fork of Meld[1] requires a "=" in the "--output"
> argument, as it uses a wrapper[2] script that munges the
> "--output" argument before calling into the common "meld"
> script.
>
> The macOS X wrapper script[2] accepts "--output=<filename>"
> only, despite the fact that the underlying meld code accepts
> both "--output <filename" and "--output=<filename>"[3].
>
> All versions of meld which accept "--output" accept it in
> the "--output=<filename>" form, so use "--output=<file>" for
> maximum compatibility.

Aha, then if that's the case this looks fine to me. Thanks!

> [1] https://github.com/yousseb/meld
> [2] https://github.com/yousseb/meld/blob/master/osx/Meld
> [3] https://github.com/yousseb/meld/issues/42
>
> Reported-by: Matthew Groth <mgroth49@gmail.com>
> Helped-by: Samuel Lijin <sxlijin@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
> ---
> I cloned the meld repo and could not find the code reported in the original
> issue, but I did find that same exact code existed in a macOS fork.
>
> After more investigation, this turned out to be a macOS-only issue.  The
> commit message has been updated to better reflect what's really going on.
>
>  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
>

```