[PATCH] filemerge: more backwards compatible behavior for ui.merge

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 21:55 -0600, Steve Borho wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 21:47 -0600, Steve Borho wrote:
> > # HG changeset patch
> > # User Steve Borho <steve at borho.org>
> > # Date 1202183245 21600
> > # Node ID ce3bcf0fd12054659f7798c46cea4554618ae1b5
> > # Parent  532093498c8f7953d01a1bc3d874deee24d8be24
> > filemerge: more backwards compatible behavior for ui.merge
> > 
> > ui.merge is parsed into (tool, args).  [merge-tools] is still referenced
> > to find tool.properties, but if args are specified in ui.merge they take
> > precedence over merge-tools.tool.args.
> This patch is flawed.  It shouldn't just string join the args back
> together because it loses the original grouping in ui.merge.
> 
> I'm mainly curious whether this is preferable behavior for ui.merge.
> If this is an acceptable approach, I'll submit a fixed patch.

Not sure about this at all. I think we basically want two cases:

a) ui.merge = <tool> -> use [merge-tool] settings
b) ui.merge = <tool-with-args> -> don't

And I think that just works now, no?

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