Re: [PATCH v3] Allow the user to change the temporary file name for mergetool

Am 19.08.2014 19:15, schrieb Robin Rosenberg:

Using the original filename suffix for the temporary input files to
the merge tool confuses IDEs like Eclipse. This patch introduces
a configurtion option, mergetool.tmpsuffix, which get appended to
the temporary file name. That way the user can choose to use a
suffix like ".tmp", which does not cause confusion.

I have a merge tool that does syntax highlighting based on the file
extension. Given this:

+	BACKUP="./$MERGED.BACKUP.$ext$tmpsuffix"
+	LOCAL="./$MERGED.LOCAL.$ext$tmpsuffix"
+	REMOTE="./$MERGED.REMOTE.$ext$tmpsuffix"
+	BASE="./$MERGED.BASE.$ext$tmpsuffix"

I guess I lose syntax highlighting if I were to use mergetool.tmpsuffix;
but then I don't use Eclipse. Could it be that this is really just a
band-aid for Eclipse users, not IDEs in general as you are hinting in
the Documentation of the new variable?

-- Hannes