difftool: provide basename to external tools

Currently, only configured diff helpers get the basename of the file
being compared. Tools specified with "git difftool -x" only get the
names of temporary files for the different versions.

Export BASE so that an external tool can read the name from the
environment. Rather than using a third argument, this avoids breaking
existing scripts which may somewhat carelessly be using "$@" rather than
"$1" "$2".

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: Michael J Gruber

Documentation/git-difftool.txt

@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ with custom merge tool commands and has the same value as `$MERGED`.
 	Specify a custom command for viewing diffs.
 	'git-difftool' ignores the configured defaults and runs
 	`$command $LOCAL $REMOTE` when this option is specified.
+	Additionally, `$BASE` is set in the environment.
 
 -g::
 --gui::

git-difftool--helper.sh

@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ launch_merge_tool () {
 	fi
 
 	if use_ext_cmd; then
+		export BASE
 		eval $GIT_DIFFTOOL_EXTCMD '"$LOCAL"' '"$REMOTE"'
 	else
 		run_merge_tool "$merge_tool"