Merge branch 'da/mergetools-p4'

* da/mergetools-p4:
mergetools/p4merge: Handle "/dev/null"

diff --git a/mergetools/p4merge b/mergetools/p4merge
index 1a45c1b0c5128335fc340e7d6409b4e772419a07..295361a8aa7d075bbb9fdb8173858e37f9a43211 100644 (file)
--- a/mergetools/p4merge
+++ b/mergetools/p4merge
@@ -1,5 +1,30 @@
 diff_cmd () {
+       # p4merge does not like /dev/null
+       rm_local=
+       rm_remote=
+       if test "/dev/null" = "$LOCAL"
+       then
+               LOCAL="./p4merge-dev-null.LOCAL.$$"
+               >"$LOCAL"
+               rm_local=true
+       fi
+       if test "/dev/null" = "$REMOTE"
+       then
+               REMOTE="./p4merge-dev-null.REMOTE.$$"
+               >"$REMOTE"
+               rm_remote=true
+       fi
+
        "$merge_tool_path" "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE"
+
+       if test -n "$rm_local"
+       then
+               rm -f "$LOCAL"
+       fi
+       if test -n "$rm_remote"
+       then
+               rm -f "$REMOTE"
+       fi
 }
 
 merge_cmd () {