On Fri, Oct 03 2014 at 05:50:51 PM, Kai Willadsen <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On 4 October 2014 10:37, Kai Willadsen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> So to be completely clear, *nothing* has changed in Meld here. We take
>> the files we're given by git.
>>
>> The default meld mergetool looks to see if we support --output, and if
>> so it gives us LOCAL/BASE/REMOTE, with --output=MERGED. If we *don't*
>> support --output, it gives us LOCAL/MERGED/REMOTE, which is what
>> you're seeing.
>
> Turns out GLib has broken GApplication command line handling. You can
> confirm this is the problem you're seeing by running `meld --help` and
> seeing no Meld-specific help.
>
> I don't know when, how or whether I will be able to fix this. It's one
> in the long, long line of things that have been broken by this
> GTK/GLib release cycle.
>
> As a workaround, you can change the git mergetool helper to not check
> for --output and just always assume that it's there.
Thanks for the workaround. You can also workaround this issue without
modifying the meld mergetool script by using the
`meld_has_output_option' environment variable:
$ meld_has_output_option=true git mergetool
With this, everything is back to normal :)
--
Mitch
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