From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:58:03 GMT
Subject: Re: VCS comparison table
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... :-)