Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2024-02-15

Re: [PATCH v2] mergetools: vimdiff: use correct tool's name when reading mergetool config

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2024-02-15 18:42:53

Kipras Melnikovas [off-list ref] writes:
Though, for backwards-compatibility, I've kept the mergetool.vimdiff
fallback, so that people who unknowingly relied on it, won't have their
setup broken now.
It is a good consideration, and should be documented ...
quoted hunk
diff --git a/Documentation/config/mergetool.txt b/Documentation/config/mergetool.txt
index 294f61efd1..8e3d321a57 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/mergetool.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/mergetool.txt
@@ -45,10 +45,11 @@ mergetool.meld.useAutoMerge::
 	value of `false` avoids using `--auto-merge` altogether, and is the
 	default value.
 
-mergetool.vimdiff.layout::
-	The vimdiff backend uses this variable to control how its split
-	windows appear. Applies even if you are using Neovim (`nvim`) or
-	gVim (`gvim`) as the merge tool. See BACKEND SPECIFIC HINTS section
+mergetool.{g,n,}vimdiff.layout::
+	The vimdiff backend uses this variable to control how its split windows
+	appear. Use `mergetool.vimdiff` for regular Vim, `mergetool.nvimdiff` for
+	Neovim and `mergetool.gvimdiff` for gVim to configure the merge tool. See
+	BACKEND SPECIFIC HINTS section
... perhaps before "See BACKEND SPECIFIC HINTS section."  E.g.

	When a variant of vimdiff (vim, Neovim, or gVim) is used as
	a mergetool backend, they use this variable to control how
	the split windows appear.
	The variable `mergetool.<variant>.layout` (where <variant>
	is one of `vimdiff`, `nvimdiff`, or `gvimdiff`, depending on
	what you are using) is consulted first, and if it is missing,
	`mergetool.vimdiff.layout` is used as a fallback.  See
	BACKEND SPECIFIC HINTS section.

or something?	

quoted hunk
diff --git a/mergetools/vimdiff b/mergetools/vimdiff
index 06937acbf5..0e3058868a 100644
--- a/mergetools/vimdiff
+++ b/mergetools/vimdiff
@@ -371,9 +371,17 @@ diff_cmd_help () {
 
 
 merge_cmd () {
-	layout=$(git config mergetool.vimdiff.layout)
+	TOOL=$1
 
-	case "$1" in
+	layout=$(git config mergetool.$TOOL.layout)
The callers of merge_cmd are careful to do

	merge_cmd "$1"

so it would be a good hygiene to also quote $TOOL here, i.e.

	layout=$(git config "mergetool.$TOOL.layout")

It might not matter if the caller of run_merge_cmd (which calls
merge_cmd) eventually chooses from a known set of strings hardcoded
in mergetools--lib.sh, but it is much easier to show that you are
doing the right thing without relying on such a detail of what
happens far in the code to quote what you get from the caller
appropriately.
+
+	# backwards-compatibility:
+	if test -z "$layout"
+	then
+		layout=$(git config mergetool.vimdiff.layout)
+	fi
+
+	case "$TOOL" in
This one is quoted properly (and TOOL=$1 at the beginning does not
require quoting).  The "git config" call above is the only one that
needs to be fixed.

Thanks.
 	*vimdiff)
 		if test -z "$layout"
 		then

base-commit: 4fc51f00ef18d2c0174ab2fd39d0ee473fd144bd
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