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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeremy Morton <admin@game-point.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fixing the p4merge launch shell script
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:44:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vipas5qpu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <506B7AFB.1070700@game-point.net> (Jeremy Morton's message of "Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:38:35 +0100")

Jeremy Morton <admin@game-point.net> writes:

> I've noticed that the p4merge shell script could do with some
> improvement when it comes to merging.  Because p4merge throws up an
> error when one of the files it's given to diff is "/dev/null", git
> needs to create a temporary empty file and pass that to p4merge when
> diffing a file that has been created/deleted (eg. create file, git add
> ., git diff --cached).
> ...
> Thoughts?  Is there an easier way to do this?

Which version of git?  Perhaps you do not have ec245ba (mergetool:
Provide an empty file when needed, 2012-01-19) yet?

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-03  0:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-02 23:38 Fixing the p4merge launch shell script Jeremy Morton
2012-10-03  0:44 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-10-03  8:34   ` Jeremy Morton
2012-10-04  6:59     ` David Aguilar

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