Subject: Re: Mergetool generating blank files (1.5.3)

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:33:48 -0700

"Kelvie Wong" <[email-masked]> writes:

>> > It _could_ be just the matter of doing this, although I cannot
>> > test it right now (at work and have no access to any of the
>> > backends).  Care to try it from a subdirectory and report
>> > failure or success?

Actually, it seems that mergetool can take paths arguments, and
they need to be adjusted, so here is a fixed patch.

---
 git-mergetool.sh |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-mergetool.sh b/git-mergetool.sh
index a0e44f7..56ec993 100755
--- a/git-mergetool.sh
+++ b/git-mergetool.sh
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ USAGE='[--tool=tool] [file to merge] ...'
 SUBDIRECTORY_OK=Yes
 . git-sh-setup
 require_work_tree
+directory_prefix=$(git rev-parse --show-prefix)
+cd_to_toplevel
 
 # Returns true if the mode reflects a symlink
 is_symlink () {
@@ -378,7 +380,7 @@ if test $# -eq 0 ; then
 else
 	while test $# -gt 0; do
 		printf "\n"
-		merge_file "$1"
+		merge_file "$directory_prefix$1"
 		shift
 	done
 fi