From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Joachim Schmitz <jojo@schmitz-digital.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Auto-generate mergetool lists
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:46:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130129164619.GA1342@serenity.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vsj5krmng.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 08:15:15AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> With any backend that is non-trivial, it would not be unusual for
> the *tool.cmd to look like:
>
> [mergetool]
> mytool = sh -c '
> ... some massaging to prepare the command line
> ... to run the real tool backend comes here, and
> ... then ...
> my_real_tool $arg1 $arg2 ...
> '
>
> and you will end up detecting the presence of the shell, which is
> not very useful.
>
> I think it is perfectly fine to say "you configured it, so it must
> exist; it may fail when we try to run it but it is your problem".
> It is simpler to explain and requires one less eval.
I think you're right. The even worse case from this point of view is if
you configure it as:
[mergetool]
mytool = 'f() {
... code to actually run the tool here ...
}; f $BASE $REMOTE $LOCAL $MERGED'
which results in a false "unavailable" rather than just a useless check.
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-29 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-28 0:52 [PATCH v2 0/4] Auto-generate mergetool lists David Aguilar
2013-01-28 0:52 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] mergetool--lib: Simplify command expressions David Aguilar
2013-01-28 0:52 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] mergetool--lib: Improve the help text in guess_merge_tool() David Aguilar
2013-01-28 0:52 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] mergetool--lib: Add functions for finding available tools David Aguilar
2013-01-28 0:52 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] doc: Generate a list of valid merge tools David Aguilar
2013-01-28 2:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-28 19:37 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] mergetool--lib: Add functions for finding available tools John Keeping
2013-01-28 20:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-29 19:48 ` John Keeping
2013-01-29 20:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-29 22:27 ` David Aguilar
2013-01-29 22:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-29 23:06 ` John Keeping
2013-01-30 3:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-30 3:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-29 23:02 ` John Keeping
2013-01-29 19:22 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] mergetool--lib: Simplify command expressions John Keeping
2013-01-29 22:09 ` David Aguilar
2013-01-29 22:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-30 6:20 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] mergetool--lib: simplify " David Aguilar
2013-01-30 7:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-28 2:08 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Auto-generate mergetool lists Junio C Hamano
2013-01-28 2:21 ` David Aguilar
2013-01-28 2:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-28 2:41 ` David Aguilar
2013-01-28 2:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-28 21:01 ` John Keeping
2013-01-28 21:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-28 22:21 ` John Keeping
2013-01-29 11:56 ` Joachim Schmitz
2013-01-29 12:09 ` John Keeping
2013-01-29 16:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-29 16:46 ` John Keeping [this message]
2013-01-28 8:20 ` Philip Oakley
2013-01-28 9:16 ` David Aguilar
2013-01-28 21:19 ` Philip Oakley
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