Merge branch 'ap/maint-diff-rename-avoid-overlap' into maint

diff --git a/mergetools/p4merge b/mergetools/p4merge
index 295361a8aa7d075bbb9fdb8173858e37f9a43211..8a36916567a234c354af9994df9c28788749e7fa 100644 (file)
--- a/mergetools/p4merge
+++ b/mergetools/p4merge
@@ -1,29 +1,21 @@
 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
 }
 
@@ -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.$$"
+       >"$empty_file"
+
+       printf "%s" "$empty_file"
+}