SourceTree / Kaleidoscope mergetool behavior broken

Warren Dodge

For the last several months there has been a problem with the integration between SourceTree and Kaleidoscope. This is not the launching problem with 2.2.* – Kaleidoscope is launching correctly. What happens is this:

• Kaleidoscope integrations are set up: ksdiff & git difftool/mergetools
• SourceTree is set to use Kaleidoscope as its difftool & mergetool
• Have a file with merge conflicts
• Launch external merge tool from SourceTree to resolve the conflicts
• Make changes in Kaleidoscope & save
• (check the files on disk and note that Kaleidoscope has saved the changes to the file correctly)
• Quit Kaleidoscope
• SourceTree cleans up the temporary files and returns the conflicted file to its previous unedited state with conflict markers

Configuring SourceTree to use FileMerge as the difftool/mergetool works fine.

Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks!

 

Warren

Warren Dodge

SourceTree sets up the .gitconfig file with this entry for Kaleidoscope:

[mergetool "sourcetree"]
    cmd = /usr/local/bin/ksdiff --merge --output \"$MERGED\" --base \"$BASE\" -- \"$LOCAL\" --snapshot \"$REMOTE\" --snapshot
    trustExitCode = true

 

But it appears that ksdiff's exit code cannot be trusted. Changing the entry to the following makes everything work fine.

[mergetool "sourcetree"]
	cmd = /usr/local/bin/ksdiff --merge --output \"$MERGED\" --base \"$BASE\" -- \"$LOCAL\" --snapshot \"$REMOTE\" --snapshot
	trustExitCode = false