p4merge does not properly handle the case where "/dev/null" is passed as a filename.
Workaround it by creating a temporary file for this purpose. Reported-by: Jeremy Morton <ad...@game-point.net> Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <dav...@gmail.com> --- Jeremy, can you test this? mergetools/p4merge | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/mergetools/p4merge b/mergetools/p4merge index 1a45c1b..295361a 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 () { -- 1.8.0.rc1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html