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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git-mergetool: wrap tools with 3 files only to use the BASE file
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Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:49:55 -0500
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David Aguilar wrote:

> I think it sounds like a good thing for certain tools.
> Sebastian mentioned it being fine in ecmerge and bc3.
> xxdiff also lets you specify the output file, so it
> probably wouldn't need it either, I think.

At the risk of taking away the itch for a good feature: meld joined
the crowd of tools with -o to specify an output file in v1.5.0.

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.meld.general/1270