Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-mergetool: add support for ediff

From: Sam Vilain <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:32:34 +1200

Theodore Tso wrote:
> After looking at ediff, it is definitely the more polished and
> featureful compared to emerge --- except in one critical area, which
> is calling as a mergeing tool from a shell script or command line.
  [...]
> 	emacs --eval "(ediff-merge-files-with-ancestor \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\" \"$BASE\" nil \"$path\")"
> 
> Unfortunately, it's not enough.  Ediff doesn't have an "abort" command
> which returns a non-zero exit status, and when you use the "quit"
> command, it asks you a series of obnoxious questions:
> 
> Quit this Ediff session? (y or n)
> File /usr/projects/git/test/testfile.c exists, overwrite? (y or n)
> Merge buffer saved in /usr/projects/git/test/testfile.c
> <delay for 3 annoying seconds>
> Merge buffer saved.  Now kill the buffer? (y or n)

Yeah, I normally just save the merged buffer and quit.  This skips all that.

But I will add your little snippet to my .emacs :)

Sam.