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.

Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenb...@dewire.com>
---
 Documentation/git-mergetool.txt |  7 +++++++
 git-mergetool.sh                | 10 ++++++----
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
index e846c2e..a586766 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mergetool.txt
@@ -89,6 +89,13 @@ Setting the `mergetool.keepBackup` configuration variable to 
`false`
 causes `git mergetool` to automatically remove the backup as files
 are successfully merged.
 
+`git mergetool` may also create other temporary files for the
+different versions involved in the merge. By default these files have
+the same filename suffix as the file being merged. This may confuse
+other tools in use during a long merge operation. The user can set
+`mergtool.tmpsuffix` to be used as an extra suffix, which will be
+appened to the temporary filenamame to lessen that problem.
+
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
diff --git a/git-mergetool.sh b/git-mergetool.sh
index 9a046b7..d7cc76c 100755
--- a/git-mergetool.sh
+++ b/git-mergetool.sh
@@ -214,6 +214,8 @@ checkout_staged_file () {
 }
 
 merge_file () {
+       tmpsuffix=$(git config mergetool.tmpsuffix || true)
+
        MERGED="$1"
 
        f=$(git ls-files -u -- "$MERGED")
@@ -229,10 +231,10 @@ merge_file () {
        fi
 
        ext="$$$(expr "$MERGED" : '.*\(\.[^/]*\)$')"
-       BACKUP="./$MERGED.BACKUP.$ext"
-       LOCAL="./$MERGED.LOCAL.$ext"
-       REMOTE="./$MERGED.REMOTE.$ext"
-       BASE="./$MERGED.BASE.$ext"
+       BACKUP="./$MERGED.BACKUP.$ext$tmpsuffix"
+       LOCAL="./$MERGED.LOCAL.$ext$tmpsuffix"
+       REMOTE="./$MERGED.REMOTE.$ext$tmpsuffix"
+       BASE="./$MERGED.BASE.$ext$tmpsuffix"
 
        base_mode=$(git ls-files -u -- "$MERGED" | awk '{if ($3==1) print $1;}')
        local_mode=$(git ls-files -u -- "$MERGED" | awk '{if ($3==2) print 
$1;}')
-- 
2.1.0.rc2.6.g39c33ff.dirty

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