Re: [wishlist] graphical diff

From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Mar 18, 2007, 15:06 UTC
Message-ID: <200703181606.20678.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <1174223784.5987.6.camel@localhost>

söndag 18 mars 2007 14:16 skrev Raimund Bauer:

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> I think it would be really helpful (especially for newbies like me) to
> have an option like
> 
> git diff --gui [revisions] <singe path spec>
> 
> to fire up a graphical diff viewer (similar to what git-mergetool does).
> 
> Another good place to start a graphical diff from is probably gitk from
> a context-menu for the changed files in the lower right pane.
> 
> Thoughts?
>

Fine, except it is not likely to be my favourite gui. But you don't have to wait, you can get a gui easily today.

Pipe the output to another tool. Kompare is such a tool which can take a patch and compare it. It does not have to a single file. You can diff two trees and compare. You'll need at kdesdk version 3.5.5 (or 3.5.6) or the patch in http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131717 for kompare to display git diffs.

git diff HEAD^..HEAD | kompare -

As for other gui's I don't know which ones work easily out of the box.

Eclipse will soon have recursive diff mode for git. Seems to work here, so I'll probably submit it soon).

-- robin