David Aguilar <[email protected]> writes:
> Built-in merge tools contain a hard-coded assumption about
> whether or not a tool's exit code can be trusted to determine
> the success or failure of a merge. Tools whose exit codes are
> not trusted contain calls to check_unchanged() in their
> merge_cmd() functions.
>
> A problem with this is that the trustExitCode configuration is
> not honored for built-in tools.
>
> Teach built-in tools to honor the trustExitCode configuration.
> Extend run_merge_cmd() so that it is responsible for calling
> check_unchanged() when a tool's exit code cannot be trusted.
> Remove check_unchanged() calls from scriptlets since they are no
> longer responsible for calling it.
>
> When no configuration is present, exit_code_trustable() is
> checked to see whether the exit code should be trusted.
> The default implementation returns false.
>
> Tools whose exit codes can be trusted override
> exit_code_trustable() to true.
>
> Reported-by: Dun Peal <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <[email protected]>
> ---
> git-mergetool--lib.sh | 56
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> mergetools/araxis | 2 --
> mergetools/bc | 2 --
> mergetools/codecompare | 2 --
> mergetools/deltawalker | 6 +++++-
> mergetools/diffmerge | 4 ++++
> mergetools/diffuse | 2 --
> mergetools/ecmerge | 2 --
> mergetools/emerge | 4 ++++
> mergetools/examdiff | 2 --
> mergetools/kdiff3 | 4 ++++
> mergetools/kompare | 4 ++++
> mergetools/meld | 3 +--
> mergetools/opendiff | 2 --
> mergetools/p4merge | 2 --
> mergetools/tkdiff | 4 ++++
> mergetools/tortoisemerge | 2 --
> mergetools/vimdiff | 2 --
> mergetools/winmerge | 2 --
> mergetools/xxdiff | 2 --
> 20 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
OK, so the idea is that the backends that used to touch $BACKUP and
used to call check_unchanged stop doing these two things, while
other backends override exit_code_trustable(). That makes the
change to the backends very straightforward to understand.
> # Run a either a configured or built-in merge tool
> run_merge_cmd () {
> - merge_cmd "$1"
> + mergetool_trust_exit_code=$(trust_exit_code "$1")
> + if test "$mergetool_trust_exit_code" = "true"
> + then
> + merge_cmd "$1"
> + else
> + touch "$BACKUP"
> + merge_cmd "$1"
> + check_unchanged
> + fi
> }
Looks sensible. Thanks. Will queue.
