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mergetools/p4merge: Honor $TMPDIR for the /dev/null placeholder
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Use $TMPDIR when creating the /dev/null placeholder for p4merge.
This prevents users from finding a seemingly random untracked file
in their worktree.

This is different than what mergetool does with $LOCAL and
$REMOTE because those files exist to aid users when resolving
merges.  p4merge's /dev/null placeholder is not helpful in that
situation so it is sensible to keep it out of the worktree.

Reported-by: Jeremy Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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davvid authored and gitster committed Dec 27, 2012
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27 changes: 13 additions & 14 deletions mergetools/p4merge
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diff_cmd () {
empty_file=

# p4merge does not like /dev/null
rm_local=
rm_remote=
if test "/dev/null" = "$LOCAL"
then
LOCAL="./p4merge-dev-null.LOCAL.$$"
>"$LOCAL"
rm_local=true
LOCAL="$(create_empty_file)"
fi
if test "/dev/null" = "$REMOTE"
then
REMOTE="./p4merge-dev-null.REMOTE.$$"
>"$REMOTE"
rm_remote=true
REMOTE="$(create_empty_file)"
fi

"$merge_tool_path" "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE"

if test -n "$rm_local"
then
rm -f "$LOCAL"
fi
if test -n "$rm_remote"
if test -n "$empty_file"
then
rm -f "$REMOTE"
rm -f "$empty_file"
fi
}

Expand All @@ -33,3 +25,10 @@ merge_cmd () {
"$merge_tool_path" "$BASE" "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE" "$MERGED"
check_unchanged
}

create_empty_file () {
empty_file="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/git-difftool-p4merge-empty-file.$$"
>"$empty_file"

printf "$empty_file"
}

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