# Copyright (c) 2009 David Aguilar
#
# This is a wrapper around the GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF-compatible
-# git-difftool--helper script. This script exports
-# GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF and GIT_PAGER for use by git, and
-# GIT_DIFFTOOL_NO_PROMPT and GIT_DIFF_TOOL for use by git-difftool--helper.
+# git-difftool--helper script.
+#
+# This script exports GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF and GIT_PAGER for use by git.
+# GIT_DIFFTOOL_NO_PROMPT, GIT_DIFFTOOL_PROMPT, and GIT_DIFF_TOOL
+# are exported for use by git-difftool--helper.
+#
# Any arguments that are unknown to this script are forwarded to 'git diff'.
use strict;
}
if ($arg eq '-y' || $arg eq '--no-prompt') {
$ENV{GIT_DIFFTOOL_NO_PROMPT} = 'true';
+ delete $ENV{GIT_DIFFTOOL_PROMPT};
+ next;
+ }
+ if ($arg eq '--prompt') {
+ $ENV{GIT_DIFFTOOL_PROMPT} = 'true';
+ delete $ENV{GIT_DIFFTOOL_NO_PROMPT};
next;
}
if ($arg eq '-h' || $arg eq '--help') {
}
setup_environment();
-exec(generate_command());
+
+# ActiveState Perl for Win32 does not implement POSIX semantics of
+# exec* system call. It just spawns the given executable and finishes
+# the starting program, exiting with code 0.
+# system will at least catch the errors returned by git diff,
+# allowing the caller of git difftool better handling of failures.
+my $rc = system(generate_command());
+exit($rc | ($rc >> 8));