2 # Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 David Aguilar
4 # This is a wrapper around the GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF-compatible
5 # git-difftool--helper script.
7 # This script exports GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF and GIT_PAGER for use by git.
8 # GIT_DIFFTOOL_NO_PROMPT, GIT_DIFFTOOL_PROMPT, and GIT_DIFF_TOOL
9 # are exported for use by git-difftool--helper.
11 # Any arguments that are unknown to this script are forwarded to 'git diff'.
16 use Getopt::Long qw(:config pass_through);
23 usage: git difftool [-t|--tool=<tool>]
26 [--prompt] [-y|--no-prompt]
32 # parse command-line options. all unrecognized options and arguments
33 # are passed through to the 'git diff' command.
34 my ($difftool_cmd, $extcmd, $gui, $help, $prompt);
35 GetOptions('g|gui!' => \$gui,
37 'prompt!' => \$prompt,
38 'y' => sub { $prompt = 0; },
39 't|tool:s' => \$difftool_cmd,
40 'x|extcmd:s' => \$extcmd);
45 if (defined($difftool_cmd)) {
46 if (length($difftool_cmd) > 0) {
47 $ENV{GIT_DIFF_TOOL} = $difftool_cmd;
49 print "No <tool> given for --tool=<tool>\n";
53 if (defined($extcmd)) {
54 if (length($extcmd) > 0) {
55 $ENV{GIT_DIFFTOOL_EXTCMD} = $extcmd;
57 print "No <cmd> given for --extcmd=<cmd>\n";
63 $guitool = Git::config('diff.guitool');
64 if (length($guitool) > 0) {
65 $ENV{GIT_DIFF_TOOL} = $guitool;
68 if (defined($prompt)) {
70 $ENV{GIT_DIFFTOOL_PROMPT} = 'true';
72 $ENV{GIT_DIFFTOOL_NO_PROMPT} = 'true';
77 $ENV{GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF} = 'git-difftool--helper';
78 my @command = ('git', 'diff', @ARGV);
80 # ActiveState Perl for Win32 does not implement POSIX semantics of
81 # exec* system call. It just spawns the given executable and finishes
82 # the starting program, exiting with code 0.
83 # system will at least catch the errors returned by git diff,
84 # allowing the caller of git difftool better handling of failures.
85 my $rc = system(@command);
86 exit($rc | ($rc >> 8));