mergetool: add per-tool support and overrides for the hideResolved flag

Add a per-tool override flag so that users may enable the flag for one
tool and disable it for another by setting
`mergetool.<tool>.hideResolved` to `false`.

In addition, the author or maintainer of a mergetool may optionally
override the default `hideResolved` value for that mergetool. If the
`mergetools/<tool>` shell script contains a `hide_resolved_enabled`
function it will be called when the mergetool is invoked and the return
value will be used as the default for the `hideResolved` flag.

    hide_resolved_enabled () {
        return 1
    }

Disabling may be desirable if the mergetool wants or needs access to the
original, unmodified 'LOCAL' and 'REMOTE' versions of the conflicted
file. For example:

- A tool may use a custom conflict resolution algorithm and prefer to
  ignore the results of Git's conflict resolution.
- A tool may want to visually compare/constrast the version of the file
  from before the merge (saved to 'LOCAL', 'REMOTE', and 'BASE') with
  Git's conflict resolution results (saved to 'MERGED').

Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Seth House <seth@eseth.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/git-mergetool.sh b/git-mergetool.sh
index e5eac935f3..911470a5b2 100755
--- a/git-mergetool.sh
+++ b/git-mergetool.sh
@@ -333,7 +333,41 @@ merge_file () {
 	checkout_staged_file 2 "$MERGED" "$LOCAL"
 	checkout_staged_file 3 "$MERGED" "$REMOTE"
 
-	if test "$(git config --type=bool mergetool.hideResolved)" != "false"
+	# hideResolved preferences hierarchy.
+	global_config="mergetool.hideResolved"
+	tool_config="mergetool.${merge_tool}.hideResolved"
+
+	if enabled=$(git config --type=bool "$tool_config")
+	then
+		# The user has a specific preference for a specific tool and no
+		# other preferences should override that.
+		: ;
+	elif enabled=$(git config --type=bool "$global_config")
+	then
+		# The user has a general preference for all tools.
+		#
+		# 'true' means the user likes the feature so we should use it
+		# where possible but tool authors can still override.
+		#
+		# 'false' means the user doesn't like the feature so we should
+		# not use it anywhere.
+		if test "$enabled" = true && hide_resolved_enabled
+		then
+		    enabled=true
+		else
+		    enabled=false
+		fi
+	else
+		# The user does not have a preference. Ask the tool.
+		if hide_resolved_enabled
+		then
+		    enabled=true
+		else
+		    enabled=false
+		fi
+	fi
+
+	if test "$enabled" = true
 	then
 		hide_resolved
 	fi