[PATCH v2] Enable auto-merge for meld to follow the vim-diff beharior

From: "sunlin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sunlin <sunlin7@yahoo.com>, "lin.sun" <lin.sun@zoom.us>
Subject: [PATCH v2] Enable auto-merge for meld to follow the vim-diff beharior
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2020 03:19:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pull.781.v2.git.git.1591672753363.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.781.git.git.1588901124066.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

From: "lin.sun" <lin.sun@zoom.us>

The mergetool "meld" does NOT merge the no-conflict changes, while the
mergetool "vimdiff" will merge the no-conflict parts and highlight the
conflict parts.
This patch will make the mergetool "meld" similar to "vimdiff",
auto-merge the no-conflict parts, highlight conflict parts.

Signed-off-by: Lin Sun <lin.sun@zoom.us>
---
    Enable auto-merge for meld to follow the vimdiff beharior
    
    Hi, the mergetool "meld" does NOT merge the no-conflict changes, while
    the mergetool "vimdiff" will merge the no-conflict changes and highlight
    the conflict parts. This patch will make the mergetool "meld" similar to
    "vimdiff", auto-merge the no-conflict changes, highlight conflict parts.

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-781%2Fsunlin7%2Fmaster-v2
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-781/sunlin7/master-v2
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/781

Range-diff vs v1:

 1:  739e69e6631 ! 1:  6e98a10bfa9 Enable auto-merge for meld to follow the vim-diff beharior
     @@ Commit message
          This patch will make the mergetool "meld" similar to "vimdiff",
          auto-merge the no-conflict parts, highlight conflict parts.
      
     -    Signed-off-by: Lin Sun <sunlin7@yahoo.com>
     +    Signed-off-by: Lin Sun <lin.sun@zoom.us>
      
       ## mergetools/meld ##
      @@ mergetools/meld: merge_cmd () {


 mergetools/meld | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mergetools/meld b/mergetools/meld
index 7a08470f883..318653cc9f7 100644
--- a/mergetools/meld
+++ b/mergetools/meld
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ merge_cmd () {
 
 	if test "$meld_has_output_option" = true
 	then
-		"$merge_tool_path" --output="$MERGED" \
+		"$merge_tool_path" --auto-merge --output="$MERGED" \
 			"$LOCAL" "$BASE" "$REMOTE"
 	else
-		"$merge_tool_path" "$LOCAL" "$MERGED" "$REMOTE"
+		"$merge_tool_path" --auto-merge "$LOCAL" "$MERGED" "$REMOTE"
 	fi
 }
 

base-commit: 07d8ea56f2ecb64b75b92264770c0a664231ce17
-- 
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