From: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:31:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Errors GITtifying GCC and Binutils
Message-ID: <20060323.133120.69312511.davem@davemloft.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603231134160.26286@g5.osdl.org>

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:38:33 -0800 (PST)

> Yeah, I'm not counting things like Eclipse etc. I'm talking about "plain 
> SCM" environments, ie just basic SVN or CVS. What are we missing in that 
> department? (The only thing I can think of is a diff colorizer, which some 
> prople seem to really want).

gitk does color the diffs already, or are we talking about some
"side-by-side" multiple window thing showing "before" on the
left and "after" on the right?

Given that the gitk author has also written diff colorizers in the
past, I don't see providing this as being much of a problem :)