From 3facc60031a5b860cae8cb26957e5b4e80820c34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:22:36 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] mergetools/p4merge: Handle "/dev/null"

p4merge does not properly handle the case where "/dev/null"
is passed as a filename.

Work it around by creating a temporary file for this purpose.

Reported-by: Jeremy Morton <admin@game-point.net>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---

 Needs to be amended with Tested-by when a report comes...
---
 mergetools/p4merge | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mergetools/p4merge b/mergetools/p4merge
index 1a45c1b0c5..295361a8aa 100644
--- a/mergetools/p4merge
+++ b/mergetools/p4merge
@@ -1,5 +1,30 @@
 diff_cmd () {
+	# p4merge does not like /dev/null
+	rm_local=
+	rm_remote=
+	if test "/dev/null" = "$LOCAL"
+	then
+		LOCAL="./p4merge-dev-null.LOCAL.$$"
+		>"$LOCAL"
+		rm_local=true
+	fi
+	if test "/dev/null" = "$REMOTE"
+	then
+		REMOTE="./p4merge-dev-null.REMOTE.$$"
+		>"$REMOTE"
+		rm_remote=true
+	fi
+
 	"$merge_tool_path" "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE"
+
+	if test -n "$rm_local"
+	then
+		rm -f "$LOCAL"
+	fi
+	if test -n "$rm_remote"
+	then
+		rm -f "$REMOTE"
+	fi
 }
 
 merge_cmd () {
-- 
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