Currently, only configured diff helpers get the basename of the file
being compared. Tools specified with "git difftool -x" only get the
names of temporary files for the different versions.
Export BASE so that an external tool can read the name from the
environment. Rather than using a third argument, this avoids breaking
existing scripts which may somewhat carelessly be using "$@" rather than
"$1" "$2".
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is an oversimplification to say that we can take
"[<commit> [<commit>]]", as it really depends on what
options have been given. Instead, let's list the major modes
of operation separately, as we do in other manpages.
This patch also adjusts the text immediately after the
synopsis to match the lines given in the synopsis.
For git-difftool, which has the same issue, let's refer the
user to the git-diff manpage rather than spelling it all out
again.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This was the only occurence of that usage, and square brackets are
sufficient and already well-established for that purpose.
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* remotes/trast-doc/for-next:
Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout
Documentation: format full commands in typewriter font
Documentation: warn prominently against merging with dirty trees
Documentation/git-merge: reword references to "remote" and "pull"
Conflicts:
Documentation/config.txt
Documentation/git-config.txt
Documentation/git-merge.txt
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>
The documentation was quite inconsistent when spelling 'git cmd' if it
only refers to the program, not to some specific invocation syntax:
both 'git-cmd' and 'git cmd' spellings exist.
The current trend goes towards dashless forms, and there is precedent
in 647ac70 (git-svn.txt: stop using dash-form of commands.,
2009-07-07) to actively eliminate the dashed variants.
Replace 'git-cmd' with 'git cmd' throughout, except where git-shell,
git-cvsserver, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, and
git-upload-archive are concerned, because those really live in the
$PATH.
git-difftool requires difftool.<tool>.cmd configuration even when
tools use the standard "$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>
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>
Add p4merge to the set of built-in diff/merge tools, and update
bash completion and documentation.
Signed-off-by: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Araxis merge is now a built-in diff/merge tool.
This adds araxis to git-completion and updates
the documentation to mention araxis.
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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>
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>
