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From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
	Alexander Vladimirov <alexander.idkfa.vladimirov@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git mergetool ignores configured command line
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 03:35:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111023103459.GA29816@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vaa8s592k.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 02:52:19AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> 
> > diffuse is already a predefined merge tool, so mergetool.diffuse.cmd is
> > ignored.  Try using a different name.
> 
> I wonder if we can improve this, though.
> 
> It is nice that we give canned definition of argument order to so many
> obscure tools, but instead of ignoring mergetool.<tool>.cmd when the user
> told us to use <tool>, couldn't we simply ignore what we have internally
> as canned definition?
> 
> Even if such a change were too intrusive (I didn't check), could we have
> a decency to at least warn that we are ignoring the configuration?

I agree.  Ideally, we should honor their configuration.
I'll see if doing so is not too intrusive.
-- 
					David

      reply	other threads:[~2011-10-23 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-23  4:43 git mergetool ignores configured command line Alexander Vladimirov
2011-10-23  8:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-23  9:52   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-23 10:35     ` David Aguilar [this message]

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