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From: Seth House <seth@eseth.com>
To: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, pudinha <rogi@skylittlesystem.org>,
	David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] mergetools/vimdiff: add vimdiff1 merge tool variant
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:29:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YDhBAPbU/T8BldrS@ellen.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b3467a47-dffd-154f-76f9-e09b8145a5e5@gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 01:45:16PM -0500, Philippe Blain wrote:
> I think it would be good to add a short note about these variants somewhere
> in Documentation/git-mergetool.txt. Might be in this patch, or not if you don't
> feel like it...
> 
> Going further, we could even add a short (few words) description of each tool
> and have that description show up in the output of  'git mergetool --tool-help',
> something like this:
> 
> $ git mergetool --tool-help
> 'git mergetool --tool=<tool>' may be set to one of the following:
> 		emerge		Emacs (Emerge)
> 		opendiff	Apple FileMerge
> 		vimdiff		Vim (??)
> 		vimdiff2	Vim (3 panes)
> 		vimdiff3	Vim (4 panes)

Great suggestions, thanks. A little explanation would be very helpful --
I've been confused by those variants too and wondered why I might want
to use one over another.

I'll roll those into this patch.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-26  0:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-14  2:28 [PATCH 0/1] mergetools/vimdiff: add vimdiff1 merge tool variant Seth House
2021-02-14  2:28 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Seth House
2021-02-16 18:38   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-23 18:55     ` David Aguilar
2021-02-25 16:02       ` Seth House
2021-02-25 18:45 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Philippe Blain
2021-02-26  0:29   ` Seth House [this message]
2021-02-26  2:04     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-26 23:35       ` Seth House
2021-02-27  1:52         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-27  2:17           ` Seth House

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