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David Aguilar
853e10c197 difftool: fix dir-diff index creation when in a subdirectory
9ec26e7977 (difftool: fix argument handling in subdirs, 2016-07-18)
corrected how path arguments are handled in a subdirectory, but
it introduced a regression in how entries outside of the
subdirectory are handled by dir-diff.

When preparing the right-side of the diff we only include the
changed paths in the temporary area.

The left side of the diff is constructed from a temporary
index that is built from the same set of changed files, but it
was being constructed from within the subdirectory.  This is a
problem because the indexed paths are toplevel-relative, and
thus they were not getting added to the index.

Teach difftool to chdir to the toplevel of the repository before
preparing its temporary indexes.  This ensures that all of the
toplevel-relative paths are valid.

Add test cases to more thoroughly exercise this scenario.

Reported-by: Frank Becker <fb@mooflu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-12-08 10:28:00 -08:00
David Aguilar
32b8c581ec difftool: use Git::* functions instead of passing around state
Call Git::command() and friends directly wherever possible.
This makes it clear that these operations can be invoked directly
without needing to manage the current directory and related GIT_*
environment variables.

Eliminate find_repository() since we can now use wc_path() and
not worry about side-effects involving environment variables.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-28 14:01:55 -07:00
David Aguilar
98f917ed42 difftool: avoid $GIT_DIR and $GIT_WORK_TREE
Environment variables are global and hard to reason about.
Use the `--git-dir` and `--work-tree` arguments when invoking `git`
instead of relying on the environment.

Add a test to ensure that difftool's dir-diff feature works when these
variables are present in the environment.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-28 14:01:55 -07:00
John Keeping
9ec26e7977 difftool: fix argument handling in subdirs
When in a subdirectory of a repository, path arguments should be
interpreted relative to the current directory not the root of the
working tree.

The Git::repository object passed into setup_dir_diff() is configured to
handle this correctly but we create a new Git::repository here without
setting the WorkingSubdir argument.  By simply using the existing
repository, path arguments are handled relative to the current
directory.

Reported-by: Bernhard Kirchen <bernhard.kirchen@rwth-aachen.de>
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>
2016-07-19 11:12:27 -07:00
David Aguilar
366f9cea18 difftool: handle unmerged files in dir-diff mode
When files are unmerged they can show up as both unmerged and
modified in the output of `git diff --raw`.  This causes
difftool's dir-diff to create filesystem entries for the same
path twice, which fails when it encounters a duplicate path.

Ensure that each worktree path is only processed once.
Add a test to demonstrate the breakage.

Reported-by: Jan Smets <jan@smets.cx>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-16 14:53:05 -07:00
David Aguilar
951b551d0f difftool: initialize variables for readability
The code always goes into one of the two conditional blocks but make it
clear that not doing so is an error condition by setting $ok to 0.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-05-16 14:53:03 -07:00
David Aguilar
cfe2d4be91 difftool: ignore symbolic links in use_wt_file
The caller is preparing a narrowed-down copy of the working tree and
this function is asked if the path should be included in that copy.
If we say yes, the path from the working tree will be either symlinked
or copied into the narrowed-down copy.

For any path that is a symbolic link, the caller later fixes up the
narrowed-down copy by unlinking the path and replacing it with a
regular file it writes out that mimics the way how "git diff"
compares symbolic links.

Let's answer "no, you do not want to copy/symlink the working tree
file" for all symbolic links from this function, as we know the
result will not be used because it will be overwritten anyway.

Incidentally, this also stops the function from feeding a symbolic
link in the working tree to hash-object, which is a wrong thing to
do to begin with. The link may be pointing at a directory, or worse
may be dangling (both would be noticed as an error).  Even if the
link points at a regular file, hashing the contents of a file that
is pointed at by the link is not correct (Git hashes the contents of
the link itself, not the pointee).

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-10-29 13:43:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9ce57f1228 Merge branch 'da/difftool'
Allow diff tool backend to stop early by exiting with a non-zero
status.

* da/difftool:
  difftool: add support for --trust-exit-code
  difftool--helper: exit when reading a prompt answer fails
2014-10-29 10:09:35 -07:00
David Aguilar
2b52123fcf difftool: add support for --trust-exit-code
Teach difftool to exit when a diff tool returns a non-zero exit
code when either --trust-exit-code is specified or
difftool.trustExitCode is true.

Forward exit codes from invoked diff tools to the caller when
--trust-exit-code is used.

Suggested-by: Adri Farr <14farresa@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-28 10:36:57 -07:00
Charles Bailey
4fb4b02d98 difftool: don't assume that default sh is sane
git-difftool used to create a command list script containing $( ... )
and explicitly calls "sh -c" with this list.

Instead, allow mergetool --tool-help to take a mode parameter and call
mergetool directly to invoke the show_tool_help function. This mode
parameter is intented for use solely by difftool.

Signed-off-by: Charles Bailey <cbailey32@bloomberg.net>
Helped-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-10-15 14:12:20 -07:00
David Aguilar
94eaa80651 difftool: support repositories with .git-files
Modern versions of "git submodule" use .git-files to setup the
submodule directory.  When run in a "git submodule"-created
repository "git difftool --dir-diff" dies with the following
error:

	$ git difftool -d HEAD~
	fatal: This operation must be run in a work tree
	diff --raw --no-abbrev -z HEAD~: command returned error: 128

core.worktree is relative to the .git directory but the logic
in find_worktree() does not account for it.

Use `git rev-parse --show-toplevel` to find the worktree so that
the dir-diff feature works inside a submodule.

Reported-by: Gábor Lipták <gabor.liptak@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@web.de>
Helped-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-02-24 09:53:57 -08:00
Kenichi Saita
32eaf1de7f difftool --dir-diff: allow changing any clean working tree file
The temporary directory prepared by "difftool --dir-diff" to
show the result of a change can be modified by the user via
the tree diff program, and we try hard not to lose changes
to them after tree diff program returns to us.

However, the set of files to be copied back is computed
differently between --symlinks and --no-symlinks modes.  The
former checks all paths that start out as identical to the
working tree file, while the latter checks paths that
already had a local modification in the working tree,
allowing changes made in the tree diff program to paths that
did not have any local change to be lost.

Signed-off-by: Kenichi Saita <nitoyon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-29 12:50:08 -07:00
John Keeping
1f197a1de4 difftool: fix dir-diff when file does not exist in working tree
Commit 02c5631 (difftool --dir-diff: symlink all files matching the
working tree, 2013-03-14) does not handle the case where a file that is
being compared does not exist in the working tree.  Fix this by checking
for existence explicitly before running git-hash-object.

Reported-by: Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi>
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-17 11:46:53 -07:00
John Keeping
67aa147af7 difftool: don't overwrite modified files
After running the user's diff tool, git-difftool will copy any files
that differ between the working tree and the temporary tree.  This is
useful when the user edits the file in their diff tool but is wrong if
they edit the working tree file while examining the diff.

Instead of copying unconditionally when the files differ, create and
index from the working tree files and only copy the temporary file back
if it was modified and the working tree file was not.  If both files
have been modified, print a warning and exit with an error.

Note that we cannot use an existing index in git-difftool since those
contain the modified files that need to be checked out but here we are
looking at those files which are copied from the working tree and not
checked out.  These are precisely the files which are not in the
existing indices.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-29 15:16:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
18973d8ac9 Merge branch 'jk/difftool-dir-diff-edit-fix'
"git difftool --dir-diff" made symlinks to working tree files when
preparing a temporary directory structure, so that accidental edits
of these files in the difftool are reflected back to the working
tree, but the logic to decide when to do so was not quite right.

* jk/difftool-dir-diff-edit-fix:
  difftool --dir-diff: symlink all files matching the working tree
  difftool: avoid double slashes in symlink targets
  git-difftool(1): fix formatting of --symlink description
2013-03-28 14:37:22 -07:00
John Keeping
02c56314aa difftool --dir-diff: symlink all files matching the working tree
Some users like to edit files in their diff tool when using "git
difftool --dir-diff --symlink" to compare against the working tree but
difftool currently only created symlinks when a file contains unstaged
changes.

Change this behaviour so that symlinks are created whenever the
right-hand side of the comparison has the same SHA1 as the file in the
working tree.

Note that textconv filters are handled in the same way as by git-diff
and if a clean filter is not the inverse of its smudge filter we already
get a null SHA1 from "diff --raw" and will symlink the file without
going through the new hash-object based check.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-14 14:33:06 -07:00
John Keeping
e0976dcf83 difftool: avoid double slashes in symlink targets
When we add tests for symlinks in "git difftool --dir-diff" it's easier
to check the target path if we don't have to worry about double slashes
separating directories.  Remove the trailing slash (if present) from
$workdir before creating the symlinks in order to avoid this.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-03-14 14:29:05 -07:00
David Aguilar
af14b5cf1b difftool: silence uninitialized variable warning
Git::config() returns `undef` when given keys that do not exist.
Check that the $guitool value is defined to prevent a noisy
"Use of uninitialized variable $guitool in length" warning.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-17 14:34:38 -08:00
John Keeping
abaf175cdf git-difftool: use git-mergetool--lib for "--tool-help"
The "--tool-help" option to git-difftool currently displays incorrect
output since it uses the names of the files in
"$GIT_EXEC_PATH/mergetools/" rather than the list of command names in
git-mergetool--lib.

Fix this by simply delegating the "--tool-help" argument to the
show_tool_help function in git-mergetool--lib.

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>
2013-01-25 11:08:55 -08:00
Ross Lagerwall
ed36e5bd41 difftool: silence warning
Silence a warning given when running git difftool --dir-diff and
there are no changes.

This is because command_oneline returns undef when the command has no
output, not ''.

Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-21 15:27:15 -07:00
David Aguilar
190f5475f2 difftool: Disable --symlinks on cygwin
Symlinks are not ubiquitous on Windows so make --no-symlinks the default.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-26 13:07:15 -07:00
David Aguilar
ceb1497a74 difftool: Handle compare() returning -1
Keep the temporary directory around when compare()
cannot read its input files, which is indicated by -1.

Defer tempdir creation to allow an early exit in setup_dir_diff().
Wrap the rest of the entry points in an exit_cleanup() function
to handle removing temporary files and error reporting.

Print the temporary files' location so that the user can
recover them.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-26 13:06:00 -07:00
David Aguilar
a4cd5be30c difftool: Wrap long lines for readability
Keep everything within 80 columns.  Wrap the user-facing messages too.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-26 11:59:35 -07:00
David Aguilar
283abb2c8a difftool: Check all return codes from compare()
Handle the case where compare() is unable to read its inputs.
Emit a warning so that the user knows that something went wrong.

We may later want to restructure the code so that we can inhibit
tempdir cleanup when this condition is reached.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-25 09:41:54 -07:00
David Aguilar
7c7584b970 difftool: Handle finding mergetools/ in a path with spaces
Use the original File::Find implementation from bf73fc2 (difftool:
print list of valid tools with '--tool-help', 2012-03-29) so that we
properly handle mergetools/ being located in a path containing
spaces.

One small difference is that we avoid using a global variable by
passing a reference to the list of tools.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-25 09:34:04 -07:00
David Aguilar
1f22934575 difftool: Use symlinks when diffing against the worktree
Teach difftool's --dir-diff mode to use symlinks to represent
files from the working copy, and make it the default behavior
for the non-Windows platforms.

Using symlinks is simpler and safer since we do not need to
worry about copying files back into the worktree.
The old behavior is still available as --no-symlinks.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-23 09:35:53 -07:00
David Aguilar
b965e8f44a difftool: Call the temp directory "git-difftool"
The "diffall" name was left over from when this functionality was part of
the "git-diffall" script in contrib/.  Make the naming consistent.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-22 21:43:04 -07:00
David Aguilar
c9bdd50520 difftool: Move option values into a hash
Shorten the "my" declaration for all of the option-specific variables
by wrapping all of them in a hash.  This also gives us a place to
specify default values, should we need them.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-22 21:42:23 -07:00
David Aguilar
75cd758309 difftool: Eliminate global variables
Organize the script so that it has a single main() function which
calls out to dir_diff() and file_diff() functions. This eliminates
"dir-diff"-specific variables that do not need to be calculated when
performing a regular file-diff.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-22 21:41:18 -07:00
David Aguilar
35989c68ee difftool: Simplify print_tool_help()
Eliminate a global variable and File::Find usage by building upon
basename() and glob() instead.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-22 21:39:57 -07:00
Tim Henigan
05df532655 difftool: only copy back files modified during directory diff
When 'difftool --dir-diff' is used to compare working tree files,
it always copies files from the tmp dir back to the working tree
when the diff tool is closed, even if the files were not modified
by the diff tool.

This causes the file timestamp to change. Files should only be
copied from the tmp dir back to the working copy if they were
actually modified.

Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-07-19 10:33:44 -07:00
Tim Henigan
bf73fc212a difftool: print list of valid tools with '--tool-help'
Since bc7a96a (mergetool--lib: Refactor tools into separate files,
2011-08-18), it is possible to add a new diff tool by creating a simple
script in the '$(git --exec-path)/mergetools' directory.  Updating the
difftool help text is still a manual process, and the documentation can
easily go out of sync.

This commit teaches difftool the '--tool-help' option, which:
  - Reads the list of valid tools from 'mergetools/*'
  - Determines which of them are actually installed
  - Determines which are capable of diffing (i.e. not just a merge tool)
  - Prints the resulting list for the user

Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-23 12:00:42 -07:00
Tim Henigan
7e0abcec10 difftool: teach difftool to handle directory diffs
When 'difftool' is called to compare a range of commits that modify
more than one file, it opens a separate instance of the diff tool for
each file that changed.

The new '--dir-diff' option copies all the modified files to a temporary
location and runs a directory diff on them in a single instance of the
diff tool.

Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-23 11:59:34 -07:00
Tim Henigan
e9653615fa difftool: eliminate setup_environment function
Removing this function shortens the code and makes it easier to read.
Now all environment variables are set as part of procedural operation.

Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-23 11:46:26 -07:00
Tim Henigan
11bf87076a difftool: stop appending '.exe' to git
The system call to Git works the same whether or not ".exe" is
appended to "git". The extra code is not necessary.

Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-23 11:46:26 -07:00
Tim Henigan
db607087d0 difftool: remove explicit change of PATH
Adding the script directory to PATH is not needed. The script is
located at '$(git --exec-path)', which is already on the PATH.

Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-23 11:46:26 -07:00
Tim Henigan
283607694c difftool: exit(0) when usage is printed
Prior to this commit, the script exited with an error whenever the
usage string was printed, regardless of the reason it was done. In
cases where usage was printed due to a user request (e.g. '-h'
option), the script should exit without error (exit 0).

This commit adds an argument to the usage function that allows the
exit code to be specified when the function is called.

Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-23 11:46:26 -07:00
Tim Henigan
850896042a difftool: add '--no-gui' option
This commit teaches difftool to handle the '--no-gui' option. This option
negates the existing '--gui' option. The last setting given on the command
line wins.

This allows a user to configure "[alias] mdt = difftool --gui", but still
have the ability to override the setting without error:

$ git mdt --no-gui

Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-23 11:46:25 -07:00
Tim Henigan
3f94ff755e difftool: parse options using Getopt::Long
Replace custom option/argument parser with standard Getopt::Long
module.  This shortens the code and makes it easier to understand.

Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-23 11:46:25 -07:00
Clemens Buchacher
87182b17ed use -h for synopsis and --help for manpage consistently
A few scripted Porcelain implementations pretend as if the routine to show
their own help messages are triggered upon "git cmd --help", but a command
line parser of "git" will hijack such a request and shows the manpage for
the cmd subcommand.

Leaving the code to handle such input is simply misleading.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-05 10:47:10 -07:00
Ramsay Jones
d531174fe3 difftool: Fix failure on Cygwin
In particular, test 14 'difftool last flag wins' in t7800 fails.
This is caused by git-difftool.perl passing both GIT_DIFFTOOL_NO_PROMPT
(='true') and GIT_DIFFTOOL_PROMPT (='true') to the difftool helper
script. Despite the appropriate key being deleted from the ENV
hash, it seems that once a key has been set in the hash, it gets
passed along to the system() call. (ie deleting the key does not
do the equivalent of unsetenv()).

In order to fix the problem, we keep track of the required prompt
state while processing the arguments, and then set the relevant
ENV hash key only once at the end.

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-14 11:13:41 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
d48b284183 perl: bump the required Perl version to 5.8 from 5.6.[21]
Formalize our dependency on perl 5.8, bumped from 5.6.[12]. We already
used the three-arg form of open() which was introduced in 5.6.1, but
t/t9700/test.pl explicitly depended on 5.6.2.

However git-add--interactive.pl has been failing on the 5.6 line since
it was introduced in v1.5.0-rc0~12^2~2 back in 2006 due to this open
syntax:

    sub run_cmd_pipe {
           my $fh = undef;
           open($fh, '-|', @_) or die;
           return <$fh>;
    }

Which when executed dies on "Can't use an undefined value as
filehandle reference". Several of our tests also fail on 5.6 (even
more when compiled with NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER=1):

    t2016-checkout-patch.sh
    t3904-stash-patch.sh
    t3701-add-interactive.sh
    t7105-reset-patch.sh
    t7501-commit.sh
    t9700-perl-git.sh

Our code is bitrotting on 5.6 with no-one interested in fixing it, and
pinning us to such an ancient release of Perl is keeping us from using
useful features introduced in the 5.8 release.

The 5.6 series is now over 10 years old, and the 5.6.2 maintenance
release almost 7. 5.8 on the other hand is more than 8 years old.

All the modern Unix-like operating systems have now upgraded to it or
a later version, and 5.8 packages are available for old IRIX, AIX
Solaris and Tru64 systems.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>
Acked-by: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-27 12:37:41 -07:00
David Aguilar
42accaec01 difftool: Fix '--gui' when diff.guitool is unconfigured
When diff.guitool is unconfigured and "--gui" is specified
git-difftool dies with the following error message:

	config diff.guitool: command returned error: 1

Catch the error so that the "--gui" flag is a no-op when
diff.guitool is unconfigured.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-28 09:29:12 -07:00
David Aguilar
f47f1e2ce8 difftool: Add '-x' and as an alias for '--extcmd'
This adds '-x' as a shorthand for the '--extcmd' option.
Arguments to '--extcmd' can be specified separately, which
was not originally possible.

This also fixes the brief help text so that it mentions
both '-x' and '--extcmd'.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-15 15:04:31 -08:00
David Aguilar
1c6f5b52b7 difftool: Allow specifying unconfigured commands with --extcmd
git-difftool requires difftool.<tool>.cmd configuration even when
tools use the standard "$diffcmd $from $to" form.  This teaches
git-difftool to run these tools in lieu of configuration by
allowing the command to be specified on the command line.

Reference: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/133377
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-09 22:41:30 -08:00
David Aguilar
4cefa495ca git-difftool: Add '--gui' for selecting a GUI tool
Users might prefer to have git-difftool use a different
tool when run from a Git GUI.

This teaches git-difftool to honor 'diff.guitool' when
the '--gui' option is specified.  This allows users to
configure their preferred command-line diff tool in
'diff.tool' and a GUI diff tool in 'diff.guitool'.

Reference: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/133386
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-03 00:29:35 -08:00
Alex Riesen
677fbff88f Explain seemingly pointless use of system in difftool
Portability reasons.

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-24 01:20:35 -07:00
Alex Riesen
e8d1180467 Wait for git diff to finish in git difftool
In ActivetState Perl, exec does not wait for the started program. This
breaks difftool tests and may cause unexpected behaviour: git difftool
has returned, but the rest of code (diff and possibly the interactive
program are still running in the background.

Acked-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-22 18:39:21 -07:00
David Aguilar
a904392eae difftool: add support for a difftool.prompt config variable
difftool now supports difftool.prompt so that users do not have to
pass --no-prompt or hit enter each time a diff tool is launched.
The --prompt flag overrides the configuration variable.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-07 22:19:56 -07:00
David Aguilar
afcbc8e7ec difftool: move 'git-difftool' out of contrib
This prepares 'git-difftool' and its documentation for
mainstream use.

'git-difftool-helper' became 'git-difftool--helper'
since users should not use it directly.

'git-difftool' was added to the list of commands as
an ancillaryinterrogator.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-07 22:19:56 -07:00