When no merge.tool or diff.tool is configured or manually selected, the
selection of a default tool is sensitive to the DISPLAY variable; in a
GUI session a gui-specific tool will be proposed if found, and
otherwise a terminal-based one. This "GUI-optimizing" behavior is
important because a GUI can make a huge difference to a user's ability
to understand and correctly complete a non-trivial conflicting merge.
Some time ago the merge.guitool and diff.guitool config options were
introduced to enable users to configure both a GUI tool, and a non-GUI
tool (with fallback if no GUI tool configured), in the same environment.
Unfortunately, the --gui argument introduced to support the selection of
the guitool is still explicit. When using configured tools, there is no
equivalent of the no-tool-configured "propose a GUI tool if we are in a GUI
environment" behavior.
As proposed in <xmqqmtb8jsej.fsf@gitster.g>, introduce new configuration
options, difftool.guiDefault and mergetool.guiDefault, supporting a special
value "auto" which causes the corresponding tool or guitool to be selected
depending on the presence of a non-empty DISPLAY value. Also support "true"
to say "default to the guitool (unless --no-gui is passed on the
commandline)", and "false" as the previous default behavior when these new
configuration options are not specified.
Signed-off-by: Tao Klerks <tao@klerks.biz>
Acked-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Running 'git {merge,diff}tool --tool-help' now also prints usage
information about the vimdiff tool (and its variants) instead of just
its name.
Two new functions ('diff_cmd_help()' and 'merge_cmd_help()') have been
added to the set of functions that each merge tool (ie. scripts found
inside "mergetools/") can overwrite to provided tool specific
information.
Right now, only 'mergetools/vimdiff' implements these functions, but
other tools are encouraged to do so in the future, specially if they
take configuration options not explained anywhere else (as it is the
case with the 'vimdiff' tool and the new 'layout' option)
Note that the function 'show_tool_names', used in the implementation of
'git mergetool --tool-help', is also used in Documentation/Makefile to
generate the list of allowed values for the configuration variables
'{diff,merge}.{gui,}tool'. Adjust the rule so its output is an Asciidoc
"description list" instead of a plain list, with the tool name as the
item and the newly added tool description as the description.
In addition, a section has been added to
"Documentation/git-mergetool.txt" to explain the new "layout"
configuration option with examples.
Helped-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Fernando Ramos <greenfoo@u92.eu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git mergetool" feeds three versions (base, local and remote) of
a conflicted path unmodified. The command learned to optionally
prepare these files with unconflicted parts already resolved.
* sh/mergetool-hideresolved:
mergetool: add per-tool support and overrides for the hideResolved flag
mergetool: break setup_tool out into separate initialization function
mergetool: add hideResolved configuration
Add a per-tool override flag so that users may enable the flag for one
tool and disable it for another by setting
`mergetool.<tool>.hideResolved` to `false`.
In addition, the author or maintainer of a mergetool may optionally
override the default `hideResolved` value for that mergetool. If the
`mergetools/<tool>` shell script contains a `hide_resolved_enabled`
function it will be called when the mergetool is invoked and the return
value will be used as the default for the `hideResolved` flag.
hide_resolved_enabled () {
return 1
}
Disabling may be desirable if the mergetool wants or needs access to the
original, unmodified 'LOCAL' and 'REMOTE' versions of the conflicted
file. For example:
- A tool may use a custom conflict resolution algorithm and prefer to
ignore the results of Git's conflict resolution.
- A tool may want to visually compare/constrast the version of the file
from before the merge (saved to 'LOCAL', 'REMOTE', and 'BASE') with
Git's conflict resolution results (saved to 'MERGED').
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Seth House <seth@eseth.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is preparation for the following commit where we need to source the
mergetool shell script to look for overrides before `run_merge_tool` is
called. Previously `run_merge_tool` both sourced that script and invoked
the mergetool.
In the case of the following commit, we need the result of the
`hide_resolved` override, if present, before we actually run
`run_merge_tool`.
The new `initialize_merge_tool` wrapper is exposed and documented as
a public interface for consistency with the existing `run_merge_tool`
which is also public. Although `setup_tool` could instead be exposed
directly, the related `setup_user_tool` would probably also want to be
elevated to match and this felt the cleanest to me.
Signed-off-by: Seth House <seth@eseth.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix 2.29 regression where "git mergetool --tool-help" fails to list
all the available tools.
* pb/mergetool-tool-help-fix:
mergetool--lib: fix '--tool-help' to correctly show available tools
Commit 83bbf9b92e (mergetool--lib: improve support for vimdiff-style tool
variants, 2020-07-29) introduced a regression in the output of `git mergetool
--tool-help` and `git difftool --tool-help` [1].
In function 'show_tool_names' in git-mergetool--lib.sh, we loop over the
supported mergetools and their variants and accumulate them in the variable
'variants', separating them with a literal '\n'.
The code then uses 'echo $variants' to turn these '\n' into newlines, but this
behaviour is not portable, it just happens to work in some shells, like
dash(1)'s 'echo' builtin.
For shells in which 'echo' does not turn '\n' into newlines, the end
result is that the only tools that are shown are the existing variants
(except the last variant alphabetically), since the variants are
separated by actual newlines in '$variants' because of the several
'echo' calls in mergetools/{bc,vimdiff}::list_tool_variants.
Fix this bug by embedding an actual line feed into `variants` in
show_tool_names(). While at it, replace `sort | uniq` by `sort -u`.
To prevent future regressions, add a simple test that checks that a few
known tools are correctly shown (let's avoid counting the total number
of tools to lessen the maintenance burden when new tools are added or if
'--tool-help' learns additional logic, like hiding tools depending on
the current platform).
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/CADtb9DyozjgAsdFYL8fFBEWmq7iz4=prZYVUdH9W-J5CKVS4OA@mail.gmail.com/
Reported-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Based-on-patch-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 83bbf9b92e (mergetool--lib: improve support for vimdiff-style tool
variants, 2020-07-29), we introduced a `list_tool_variants` function
in the spirit of Postel's Law: be lenient in what you accept as input.
In this particular instance, we wanted to allow not only `bc` but also
`bc3` as name for the Beyond Compare tool.
However, what this patch overlooked is that it is totally allowed for
users to override the defaults in `mergetools/`. But now that we strip
off trailing digits, the name that the user gave the tool might not
actually be in the list produced by `list_tool_variants`.
So let's do the same as for the `diff_cmd` and the `merge_cmd`: override
it with the trivial version in case a user-defined setup was detected.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The merge tools vimdiff2, vimdiff3, gvimdiff2, gvimdiff3 and bc3 are all
variants of the main tools vimdiff and bc. They are implemented in the
main and a one-liner script that just sources it exist for each.
Allow variants ending in [0-9] to be correctly wired without the need
for such one-liners, so instead of 5 scripts, only 1 (gvimdiff) is
needed.
Signed-off-by: pudinha <rogi@skylittlesystem.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update "git difftool" and "git mergetool" so that the combinations
of {diff,merge}.{tool,guitool} configuration variables serve as
fallback settings of each other in a sensible order.
* dl/difftool-mergetool:
difftool: fallback on merge.guitool
difftool: make --gui, --tool and --extcmd mutually exclusive
mergetool: fallback to tool when guitool unavailable
mergetool--lib: create gui_mode function
mergetool: use get_merge_tool function
t7610: add mergetool --gui tests
t7610: unsuppress output
In git-difftool, if the tool is called with --gui but `diff.guitool` is
not set, it falls back to `diff.tool`. Make git-mergetool also fallback
from `merge.guitool` to `merge.tool` if the former is undefined.
If git-difftool, when called with `--gui`, were to use
`get_configured_mergetool` in a future patch, it would also get the
fallback behavior in the following precedence:
1. diff.guitool
2. merge.guitool
3. diff.tool
4. merge.tool
The behavior for when difftool or mergetool are called without `--gui`
should be identical with or without this patch.
Note that the search loop could be written as
sections="merge"
keys="tool"
if diff_mode
then
sections="diff $sections"
fi
if gui_mode
then
keys="guitool $keys"
fi
merge_tool=$(
IFS=' '
for key in $keys
do
for section in $sections
do
selected=$(git config $section.$key)
if test -n "$selected"
then
echo "$selected"
return
fi
done
done)
which would make adding a mode in the future much easier. However,
adding a new mode will likely never happen as it is highly discouraged
so, as a result, it is written in its current form so that it is more
readable for future readers.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before, in `get_configured_merge_tool`, we would test the value of the
first argument directly, which corresponded to whether we were using
guitool. However, since `$GIT_MERGETOOL_GUI` is available as an
environment variable, create the `gui_mode` function which increases the
clarify of functions which use it.
While we're at it, add a space before `()` in function definitions to
fix the style.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In git-mergetool, the logic for getting which merge tool to use is
duplicated in git-mergetool--lib, except for the fact that it needs to
know whether the tool was guessed or not.
Rewrite `get_merge_tool` to return whether or not the tool was guessed
through the return code and make git-mergetool call this function
instead of duplicating the logic. Note that 1 was chosen to be the
return code of when a tool is guessed because it seems like a slightly
more abnormal condition than getting a tool that's explicitly specified
but this is completely arbitrary.
Also, let `$GIT_MERGETOOL_GUI` be set to determine whether or not the
guitool will be selected.
This change is not completely backwards compatible as there may be
external users of git-mergetool--lib. However, only one user,
git-diffall[1], was found from searching GitHub and Google, and this
tool is superseded by `git difftool --dir-diff` anyway. It seems very
unlikely that there exists an external caller that would take into
account the return code of `get_merge_tool` as it would always return 0
before this change so this change probably does not affect any external
users.
[1]: https://github.com/thenigan/git-diffall
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach difftool and mergetool about the Sublime Merge "smerge" command.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In line with how difftool accepts a -g/--[no-]gui option, make mergetool
accept the same option in order to use the `merge.guitool` variable to
find the default mergetool instead of `merge.tool`.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Anmol Mago <anmolmago@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Ho <briankyho@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Lu <david.lu97@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryan Wang <shirui.wang@hotmail.com>
Acked-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Built-in merge tools contain a hard-coded assumption about
whether or not a tool's exit code can be trusted to determine
the success or failure of a merge. Tools whose exit codes are
not trusted contain calls to check_unchanged() in their
merge_cmd() functions.
A problem with this is that the trustExitCode configuration is
not honored for built-in tools.
Teach built-in tools to honor the trustExitCode configuration.
Extend run_merge_cmd() so that it is responsible for calling
check_unchanged() when a tool's exit code cannot be trusted.
Remove check_unchanged() calls from scriptlets since they are no
longer responsible for calling it.
When no configuration is present, exit_code_trustable() is
checked to see whether the exit code should be trusted.
The default implementation returns false.
Tools whose exit codes can be trusted override
exit_code_trustable() to true.
Reported-by: Dun Peal <dunpealer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Every yes/no question in difftool/mergetool scripts has slightly
different form, and none of them is consistent with the form git
itself uses.
Make the form of all the questions consistent with the form used
by git.
Reviewed-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Nikola Forró <nforro@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Nisnevich <jacob.nisnevich@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When no diff nor merge tool is specified (config, option), mergetool-lib
is supposed to choose a default tool from a set of tools. That set is
constructed dynamically depending on the environment (graphical, editor
setting) as a space separated string of tool names.
719518f (mergetool--lib: set IFS for difftool and mergetool, 2015-05-20)
introduced a newline as IFS which breaks the parsing of the space
separated list into items, resulting in a failed search for an available
tool.
Set IFS to a space locally for the tool search.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-sh-setup sets IFS but it is not used by git-difftool--helper.
Set IFS in git-mergetool--lib so that the mergetool scriptlets,
difftool, and mergetool do not need to do so.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove return statements and rework check_unchanged() so that the exit
status from the last evaluated expression bubbles up to the callers.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Even though setup_user_tool assigns the exit status from "eval
$merge_tool_cmd" to $status, the variable is overwritten by the
function it calls next, check_unchanged, without ever getting looked
at by anybody. And "return $status" at the end of this function
returns the value check_unchanged assigned to it (which is the same
as the value the function returns). Which makes the assignment a
no-op.
Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
run_merge_tool() was not setting $status, which prevented the
exit code for builtin tools from being forwarded to the caller.
Capture the exit status and add a test to guarantee the behavior.
Reported-by: Adria Farres <14farresa@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Beyond Compare version 4 works the same way as version 3, so rename
the existing "bc3" adaptor to just "bc", while keeping "bc3" as a
backward compatible wrapper.
Noticed-by: Olivier Croquette <ocroquette@free.fr>
Helped-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a shell snippet meant to be sourced by other shell scripts, an
opening #! line does more harm than good.
The harm:
- When the shell library is sourced, the interpreter and options from
the #! line are not used. Specifying a particular shell can
confuse the reader into thinking it is safe for the shell library
to rely on idiosyncrasies of that shell.
- Using #! instead of a plain comment drops a helpful visual clue
that this is a shell library and not a self-contained script.
- Tools such as lintian can use a #! line to tell when an
installation script has failed by forgetting to set a script
executable. This check does not work if shell libraries also start
with a #! line.
The good:
- Text editors notice the #! line and use it for syntax highlighting
if you try to edit the installed scripts (without ".sh" suffix) in
place.
The use of the #! for file type detection is not needed because Git's
shell libraries are meant to be edited in source form (with ".sh"
suffix). Replace the opening #! lines with comments.
This involves tweaking the test harness's valgrind support to find
shell libraries by looking for "# " in the first line instead of "#!"
(see v1.7.6-rc3~7, 2011-06-17).
Suggested by Russ Allbery through lintian. Thanks to Jeff King and
Clemens Buchacher for further analysis.
Tested by searching for non-executable scripts with #! line:
find . -name .git -prune -o -type f -not -executable |
while read file
do
read line <"$file"
case $line in
'#!'*)
echo "$file"
;;
esac
done
The only remaining scripts found are templates for shell scripts
(unimplemented.sh, wrap-for-bin.sh) and sample input used in tests
(t/t4034/perl/{pre,post}).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The help text for the `tool` flag should mention:
--tool=<tool>
instead of:
--tool-<tool>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Saasen <ssaasen@atlassian.com>
Reviewed-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
DiffMerge is a non-free (but gratis) tool that supports OS X, Windows and Linux.
See http://www.sourcegear.com/diffmerge/
DiffMerge includes a script `/usr/bin/diffmerge` that can be used to launch the
graphical compare tool.
This change adds mergetool support for DiffMerge and adds 'diffmerge' as an
option to the mergetool help.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Saasen <ssaasen@atlassian.com>
Acked-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Instead of needing a wrapper to call the diff/merge command, simply
provide the diff_cmd and merge_cmd functions for user-specified tools in
the same way as we do for built-in tools.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Acked-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use the show_tool_names() function to build lists of all
the built-in tools supported by difftool and mergetool.
This frees us from needing to update the documentation
whenever a new tool is added.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Refactor show_tool_help() so that the tool-finding logic is broken out
into a separate show_tool_names() function.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This code path is only activated when the user does not have a valid
configured tool. Add a message to guide new users towards configuring a
default tool.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update variable assignments to always use $(command "$arg")
in their RHS instead of "$(command "$arg")" as the latter
is harder to read. Make get_merge_tool_cmd() simpler by
avoiding "echo" and $(command) substitutions completely.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the exceptions for "vim" and "defaults" in the mergetool library
so that every filename in mergetools/ matches 1:1 with the name of a
valid built-in tool.
Define the trivial fallback definition of shell functions in-line in
git-mergetool-lib script, instead of dot-sourcing them from another
file. The result is much easier to follow.
[jc: squashed in an update from John Keeping as well]
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This will make it easier to use setup_tool in places where we expect
that the selected tool will not support the current mode.
We need to introduce a new return code for setup_tool to differentiate
between the case of "the selected tool is invalid" and "the selected
tool is not a built-in" since we must call setup_tool when a custom
'merge.<tool>.path' is configured for a built-in tool but avoid failing
when the configured tool is not a built-in.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Check the can_diff and can_merge functions before deciding whether
to add the tool to the available/unavailable lists. This makes
"--tool-help" context-sensitive so that "git mergetool --tool-help"
displays merge tools only and "git difftool --tool-help" displays
diff tools only.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using show_tool_help from git-difftool we will want it to print
"git difftool" not "git mergetool" so use "git ${TOOL_MODE}tool".
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
TOOL_MODE is set at the top of git-mergetool.sh so there is no need to
set it again in show_tool_help. Removing this lets us re-use
show_tool_help in git-difftool.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is the first step in unifying "git difftool --tool-help" and
"git mergetool --tool-help".
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The actual external command to run for mergetool backend can be
specified with difftool/mergetool.$name.cmd configuration
variables, but this mechanism was ignored for the backends we
natively support.
* da/mergetool-custom:
mergetool--lib: Allow custom commands to override built-ins
Allow users to override the default commands provided by the
mergetools/* scriptlets.
Users occasionally run into problems where they expect to be
able to override the built-in tool names. The documentation
does not explicitly mention that built-ins cannot be overridden,
so it's easy to assume that it should work.
Lift this restriction so that built-in tools are handled the
same way as user-configured tools. Add tests to guarantee this
behavior.
A nice benefit of this change is that it protects users from
having future versions of git trump their custom configuration
with a new built-in tool.
C.f.:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7435002/mergetool-from-gitconfig-being-ignoredhttp://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.msysgit/13188http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/148267
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git difftool --dir-diff" learned to use symbolic links to prepare
temporary copy of the working tree when available.
* da/difftool-updates:
difftool: silence warning
Add Code Compare v2.80.4 as a merge / diff tool for Windows
mergetool,difftool: Document --tool-help consistently
difftool: Disable --symlinks on cygwin
difftool: Handle compare() returning -1
difftool: Wrap long lines for readability
difftool: Check all return codes from compare()
difftool: Handle finding mergetools/ in a path with spaces
difftool: Use symlinks when diffing against the worktree
difftool: Call the temp directory "git-difftool"
difftool: Move option values into a hash
difftool: Eliminate global variables
difftool: Simplify print_tool_help()
Code Compare is a commercial file comparison tool for Windows, see
http://www.devart.com/codecompare/
Version 2.80.4 added support for command line arguments preceded by a
dash instead of a slash. This is required for Git for Windows because
slashes in command line arguments get mangled with according to these
rules:
http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Posix_path_conversion
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This way we do not have to risk the list of tools going out of sync
between the implementation and the documentation.
In the same spirit as bf73fc2 (difftool: print list of valid tools
with '--tool-help', 2012-03-29), trim the list of merge backends in
the documentation. We do not want to have a complete list of valid
tools; we only want a list to help people guess what kind of things
the tools do to be specified there, and refer them to --tool-help
for a complete list.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mostly fixed already by 6b44577 (mergetool: check return value
from read, 2011-07-01). Catch two uses it missed.
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
