Subject: Re: [PATCH] mergetools: Enable tortoisemerge to handle filenames with spaces with TortoiseGitMerge

From: Sven Strickroth <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:16:30 +0100

TortoiseGitMerge, unlike TortoiseMerge, can be told to handle paths
with spaces in them by using -option "$FILE" (not -option:"$FILE",
which does not work for such paths) syntax.

This change was necessary because of MSYS path mangling [1], the ":"
after the "base" etc. arguments to TortoiseMerge caused to whole
argument instead of just the file name to be quoted in case of file
names with spaces. So TortoiseMerge was passed

    "-base:new file.txt"

instead of

    -base:"new file.txt"

(including the quotes). To work around this, TortoiseGitMerge does not
require the ":" after the arguments anymore which fixes handling file
names with spaces [2] (as written above).

[1] http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Posix_path_conversion
[2] https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/issues/57

Signed-off-by: Sven Strickroth <[email-masked]>
Reported-by: Sebastian Schuberth <[email-masked]>
---
 mergetools/tortoisemerge | 14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mergetools/tortoisemerge b/mergetools/tortoisemerge
index 8476afa..3b89f1c 100644
--- a/mergetools/tortoisemerge
+++ b/mergetools/tortoisemerge
@@ -6,9 +6,17 @@ merge_cmd () {
 	if $base_present
 	then
 		touch "$BACKUP"
-		"$merge_tool_path" \
-			-base:"$BASE" -mine:"$LOCAL" \
-			-theirs:"$REMOTE" -merged:"$MERGED"
+		basename="$(basename "$merge_tool_path" .exe)"
+		if test "$basename" = "tortoisegitmerge"
+		then
+			"$merge_tool_path" \
+				-base "$BASE" -mine "$LOCAL" \
+				-theirs "$REMOTE" -merged "$MERGED"
+		else
+			"$merge_tool_path" \
+				-base:"$BASE" -mine:"$LOCAL" \
+				-theirs:"$REMOTE" -merged:"$MERGED"
+		fi
 		check_unchanged
 	else
 		echo "$merge_tool_path cannot be used without a base" 1>&2
-- 
1.8.1.msysgit.1