difftool--helper: Remove use of the GIT_MERGE_TOOL variable
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1 #!/usr/bin/env perl
2 # Copyright (c) 2009 David Aguilar
4 # This is a wrapper around the GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF-compatible
5 # git-difftool--helper script.
7 # This script exports GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF and GIT_PAGER for use by git.
8 # GIT_DIFFTOOL_NO_PROMPT, GIT_DIFFTOOL_PROMPT, and GIT_DIFF_TOOL
9 # are exported for use by git-difftool--helper.
11 # Any arguments that are unknown to this script are forwarded to 'git diff'.
13 use strict;
14 use warnings;
15 use Cwd qw(abs_path);
16 use File::Basename qw(dirname);
18 require Git;
20 my $DIR = abs_path(dirname($0));
23 sub usage
25 print << 'USAGE';
26 usage: git difftool [-g|--gui] [-t|--tool=<tool>] [-y|--no-prompt]
27 ["git diff" options]
28 USAGE
29 exit 1;
32 sub setup_environment
34 $ENV{PATH} = "$DIR:$ENV{PATH}";
35 $ENV{GIT_PAGER} = '';
36 $ENV{GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF} = 'git-difftool--helper';
39 sub exe
41 my $exe = shift;
42 if ($^O eq 'MSWin32' || $^O eq 'msys') {
43 return "$exe.exe";
45 return $exe;
48 sub generate_command
50 my @command = (exe('git'), 'diff');
51 my $skip_next = 0;
52 my $idx = -1;
53 for my $arg (@ARGV) {
54 $idx++;
55 if ($skip_next) {
56 $skip_next = 0;
57 next;
59 if ($arg eq '-t' || $arg eq '--tool') {
60 usage() if $#ARGV <= $idx;
61 $ENV{GIT_DIFF_TOOL} = $ARGV[$idx + 1];
62 $skip_next = 1;
63 next;
65 if ($arg =~ /^--tool=/) {
66 $ENV{GIT_DIFF_TOOL} = substr($arg, 7);
67 next;
69 if ($arg eq '-g' || $arg eq '--gui') {
70 my $tool = Git::command_oneline('config',
71 'diff.guitool');
72 if (length($tool)) {
73 $ENV{GIT_DIFF_TOOL} = $tool;
75 next;
77 if ($arg eq '-y' || $arg eq '--no-prompt') {
78 $ENV{GIT_DIFFTOOL_NO_PROMPT} = 'true';
79 delete $ENV{GIT_DIFFTOOL_PROMPT};
80 next;
82 if ($arg eq '--prompt') {
83 $ENV{GIT_DIFFTOOL_PROMPT} = 'true';
84 delete $ENV{GIT_DIFFTOOL_NO_PROMPT};
85 next;
87 if ($arg eq '-h' || $arg eq '--help') {
88 usage();
90 push @command, $arg;
92 return @command
95 setup_environment();
97 # ActiveState Perl for Win32 does not implement POSIX semantics of
98 # exec* system call. It just spawns the given executable and finishes
99 # the starting program, exiting with code 0.
100 # system will at least catch the errors returned by git diff,
101 # allowing the caller of git difftool better handling of failures.
102 my $rc = system(generate_command());
103 exit($rc | ($rc >> 8));