git/mergetools
David Aguilar a427ef7acc 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-ignored
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.msysgit/13188
http://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>
2012-09-25 09:04:39 -07:00
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defaults mergetool--lib: Allow custom commands to override built-ins 2012-09-25 09:04:39 -07:00
deltawalker mergetools: add a plug-in to support DeltaWalker 2012-03-05 09:31:47 -08:00
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