Re: VCS comparison table
- From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
- Date
- Oct 20, 2006, 22:58 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20061020225803.GM20017@pasky.or.cz>
- In-Reply-To
- <200610210050.32254.jnareb@gmail.com>
Dear diary, on Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 12:50:31AM CEST, I got a letter where Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> said that...
> P.S. what Git lacks at least now is a way to generate diff between > two different local repositories, but you can always setup alternates > file and fetch the other repository into some tag.
It's not exactly convenient, but you can do
xpasky@machine[0:0]~/git$ GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES=../cogito/.git/objects cg-diff -r `GIT_DIR=../cogito/.git cg-object-id -c HEAD`..HEAD
I don't personally think it's worth a special UI, but there're no boundaries for initiative... :-)