P4MERGE
Description
A third-party merge program to be used by p4
resolve
's merge option.
Usage Notes
Used by Client? | Used by Server? | Command-Line Alternative | Can be set in P4CONFIG file? |
---|---|---|---|
Yes |
No |
None |
Yes |
Value if not Explicitly Set
Operating System | Value |
---|---|
All |
If the |
Examples
|
Notes
The program represented by the program name stored in this variable is
used only by p4 resolve
's merge option. When
p4 resolve
calls this program, it passes four
arguments, representing (in order) base, theirs, and yours, with
the fourth argument holding the resulting merge file.
If the program you use takes its arguments in a different order, set
P4MERGE
to a shell script or batch file that reorders the
arguments and calls the proper merge program with the arguments in the
correct order.
If you are running under Windows, you must call a batch file, even if
your third-party merge program already accepts arguments in the order
provided by Perforce. This is due to a limitation within Windows. For
instance, if you want to use a program called MERGE.EXE
under
Windows, your batch file might look something like this:
SET base=%1 SET theirs=%2 SET yours=%3 SET merge=%4 C:\FULL\PATH\TO\MERGE.EXE %base% %theirs% %yours% %merge%