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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-06-24 12:21:45 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-06-24 12:21:45 -0700
commit49ac7358da163b0f8a32ce71723b2071f962d3fd (patch)
tree7fc5bde677564c024ea04b583e9b109f127dd742 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'es/osx-header-pollutes-mask-macro' (diff)
parentll-merge: pass the original path to external drivers (diff)
downloadtgif-49ac7358da163b0f8a32ce71723b2071f962d3fd.tar.xz
Merge branch 'jc/ll-merge-expose-path'
Traditionally, external low-level 3-way merge drivers are expected to produce their results based solely on the contents of the three variants given in temporary files named by %O, %A and %B on their command line. Additionally allow them to look at the final path (given by %P). * jc/ll-merge-expose-path: ll-merge: pass the original path to external drivers
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitattributes.txt5
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diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 70899b3023..81fe586948 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ To define a custom merge driver `filfre`, add a section to your
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[merge "filfre"]
name = feel-free merge driver
- driver = filfre %O %A %B
+ driver = filfre %O %A %B %L %P
recursive = binary
----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -800,6 +800,9 @@ merge between common ancestors, when there are more than one.
When left unspecified, the driver itself is used for both
internal merge and the final merge.
+The merge driver can learn the pathname in which the merged result
+will be stored via placeholder `%P`.
+
`conflict-marker-size`
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^