extdiff: allow a preconfigured merge-tool to be invoked
There are three ways to configure an extdiff tool:
1) cmd.tool = (/path/to/exe optional)
2) tool = (path/to/exe optional)
3) tool = sometool someargs
Previously, if no executable is specified in the first two forms, the named tool
must be in $PATH, or the invocation fails. Since the [merge-tools] section
already has the path to the diff executable, and/or the registry keys to find
the executable on Windows, reuse that configuration for forms 1 and 2 instead of
failing. We already fallback to [diff-tools] and then [merge-tools] for program
arguments if they aren't specified in the [extdiff] section.
Since this additional lookup only occurs if an executable is not on the $PATH
for the named tool, this is backwards compatible. For now, we assume the user
knows what he is doing if a path is provided.
This change allows a configuration file like this (assuming beyondcompare3 is
configured in merge-tools), instead of hardcoding system specific a path:
[extdiff]
beyondcompare3 =
$ HGENCODING=utf-8
$ export HGENCODING
$ try() {
> hg debugrevspec --debug $@
> }
$ log() {
> hg log --template '{rev}\n' -r "$1"
> }
$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
$ try 'p1()'
(func
('symbol', 'p1')
None)
$ try 'p2()'
(func
('symbol', 'p2')
None)
$ try 'parents()'
(func
('symbol', 'parents')
None)
null revision
$ log 'p1()'
$ log 'p2()'
$ log 'parents()'
working dir with a single parent
$ echo a > a
$ hg ci -Aqm0
$ log 'p1()'
0
$ log 'tag() and p1()'
$ log 'p2()'
$ log 'parents()'
0
$ log 'tag() and parents()'
merge in progress
$ echo b > b
$ hg ci -Aqm1
$ hg up -q 0
$ echo c > c
$ hg ci -Aqm2
$ hg merge -q
$ log 'p1()'
2
$ log 'p2()'
1
$ log 'tag() and p2()'
$ log 'parents()'
1
2
$ cd ..