Re: [PATCH 2/3] Add -n/--no-prompt option to mergetool

[Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:11:14AM +0100, William Pursell wrote:
>
> My thinking is that when using an interactive tool
> like vimdiff, the user is probably not going to
> care as much about being prompted, or may prefer
> to have the prompt in that situation.  However,
> if they've written a script to do the merge
> non-interactively, then the prompt is undesirable.
>
> So a person might want to be prompted with
> git mergetool -t vimdiff, and prefer no prompt
> with git mergetool -t my-script.  Being able
> to configure the behavior on a per-tool
> basis would allow that.

I can see your point, although personally I feel that if you've gone
to the trouble of writing a special script, the extra typing of an
extra long option (if you prefer prompting normally) is not that big
compared with the hassle of maintaining per-tool config settings if
you like to regularly swap between merge tools.

Both scenarios are probably not too common so I wouldn't object
strongly to either. (But per tool configs is more dev work!)

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Charles Bailey
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