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, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/git-mergetool--lib.sh b/git-mergetool--lib.sh
index e059b3559e..11f00dde41 100644
--- a/git-mergetool--lib.sh
+++ b/git-mergetool--lib.sh
@@ -164,6 +164,10 @@ setup_tool () {
 		return 1
 	}
 
+	hide_resolved_enabled () {
+		return 0
+	}
+
 	translate_merge_tool_path () {
 		echo "$1"
 	}