mergetool--lib: fix '--tool-help' to correctly show available tools

Commit 83bbf9b92e (mergetool--lib: improve support for vimdiff-style tool variants, 2020-07-29) introduced a regression in the output of `git mergetool --tool-help` and `git difftool --tool-help` [1]. In function 'show_tool_names' in git-mergetool--lib.sh, we loop over the supported mergetools and their variants and accumulate them in the variable 'variants', separating them with a literal '\n'. The code then uses 'echo $variants' to turn these '\n' into newlines, but this behaviour is not portable, it just happens to work in some shells, like dash(1)'s 'echo' builtin. For shells in which 'echo' does not turn '\n' into newlines, the end result is that the only tools that are shown are the existing variants (except the last variant alphabetically), since the variants are separated by actual newlines in '$variants' because of the several 'echo' calls in mergetools/{bc,vimdiff}::list_tool_variants. Fix this bug by embedding an actual line feed into `variants` in show_tool_names(). While at it, replace `sort | uniq` by `sort -u`. To prevent future regressions, add a simple test that checks that a few known tools are correctly shown (let's avoid counting the total number of tools to lessen the maintenance burden when new tools are added or if '--tool-help' learns additional logic, like hiding tools depending on the current platform). [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/CADtb9DyozjgAsdFYL8fFBEWmq7iz4=prZYVUdH9W-J5CKVS4OA@mail.gmail.com/ Reported-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Based-on-patch-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Philippe Blain committed Jan 7, 2021 at 01:09 UTC 80f5a16798b7ff224aeab4a6b6e3627446071345
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git-mergetool--lib.sh
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index 2defef28cd..f7853906f7 100644 --- a/git-mergetool--lib.sh +++ b/git-mergetool--lib.sh @@ -46,9 +46,11 @@ show_tool_names () { while read scriptname do setup_tool "$scriptname" 2>/dev/null - variants="$variants$(list_tool_variants)\n" + # We need an actual line feed here + variants="$variants +$(list_tool_variants)" done - variants="$(echo "$variants" | sort | uniq)" + variants="$(echo "$variants" | sort -u)" for toolname in $variants do
t/t7610-mergetool.sh
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index ad288ddc69..5c4e7783c5 100755 --- a/t/t7610-mergetool.sh +++ b/t/t7610-mergetool.sh @@ -802,4 +802,15 @@ test_expect_success 'mergetool -Oorder-file is honored' ' test_cmp expect actual ' +test_expect_success 'mergetool --tool-help shows recognized tools' ' + # Check a few known tools are correctly shown + git mergetool --tool-help >mergetools && + grep vimdiff mergetools && + grep vimdiff3 mergetools && + grep gvimdiff2 mergetools && + grep araxis mergetools && + grep xxdiff mergetools && + grep meld mergetools +' + test_done