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From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mergetool--lib: add support for p4merge
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:02:45 -0700
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On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2) Does p4merge/launchp4merge require absolute paths for its arguments.
>
> I found that it does.

I lie. Running p4merge directly works with relative paths. Launching
p4merge via launchp4merge (or via open) requires absolute paths, which
I guess makes sense.

I'd still lean toward using launchp4merge with absolute paths.

$0.02.

j.