mergetool: new config guiDefault supports auto-toggling gui by DISPLAY

When no merge.tool or diff.tool is configured or manually selected, the
selection of a default tool is sensitive to the DISPLAY variable; in a
GUI session a gui-specific tool will be proposed if found, and
otherwise a terminal-based one. This "GUI-optimizing" behavior is
important because a GUI can make a huge difference to a user's ability
to understand and correctly complete a non-trivial conflicting merge.

Some time ago the merge.guitool and diff.guitool config options were
introduced to enable users to configure both a GUI tool, and a non-GUI
tool (with fallback if no GUI tool configured), in the same environment.

Unfortunately, the --gui argument introduced to support the selection of
the guitool is still explicit. When using configured tools, there is no
equivalent of the no-tool-configured "propose a GUI tool if we are in a GUI
environment" behavior.

As proposed in <xmqqmtb8jsej.fsf@gitster.g>, introduce new configuration
options, difftool.guiDefault and mergetool.guiDefault, supporting a special
value "auto" which causes the corresponding tool or guitool to be selected
depending on the presence of a non-empty DISPLAY value. Also support "true"
to say "default to the guitool (unless --no-gui is passed on the
commandline)", and "false" as the previous default behavior when these new
configuration options are not specified.

Signed-off-by: Tao Klerks <tao@klerks.biz>
Acked-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Tao Klerks
2023-03-18 15:27:43 +00:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent ae73b2c8f1
commit 42943b950e
10 changed files with 179 additions and 14 deletions

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@ -75,6 +75,11 @@ then
merge_tool="$GIT_DIFF_TOOL"
else
merge_tool="$(get_merge_tool)"
subshell_exit_status=$?
if test $subshell_exit_status -gt 1
then
exit $subshell_exit_status
fi
fi
fi