git/Documentation/git-mergetool--lib.txt
Denton Liu 05fb8726cc mergetool: use get_merge_tool function
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tool is superseded by `git difftool --dir-diff` anyway.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>
2019-05-13 23:11:59 +09:00

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git-mergetool{litdd}lib(1)
==========================
NAME
----
git-mergetool--lib - Common Git merge tool shell scriptlets
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'TOOL_MODE=(diff|merge) . "$(git --exec-path)/git-mergetool{litdd}lib"'
DESCRIPTION
-----------
This is not a command the end user would want to run. Ever.
This documentation is meant for people who are studying the
Porcelain-ish scripts and/or are writing new ones.
The 'git-mergetool{litdd}lib' scriptlet is designed to be sourced (using
`.`) by other shell scripts to set up functions for working
with Git merge tools.
Before sourcing 'git-mergetool{litdd}lib', your script must set `TOOL_MODE`
to define the operation mode for the functions listed below.
'diff' and 'merge' are valid values.
FUNCTIONS
---------
get_merge_tool::
returns a merge tool. the return code is 1 if we returned a guessed
merge tool, else 0. '$GIT_MERGETOOL_GUI' may be set to 'true' to
search for the appropriate guitool.
get_merge_tool_cmd::
returns the custom command for a merge tool.
get_merge_tool_path::
returns the custom path for a merge tool.
run_merge_tool::
launches a merge tool given the tool name and a true/false
flag to indicate whether a merge base is present.
'$MERGED', '$LOCAL', '$REMOTE', and '$BASE' must be defined
for use by the merge tool.
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite