Re: How to Import a bitkeeper repo into git

From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Date: Oct 16, 2007, 01:13 UTC
Message-ID: <20071016011325.GB609@old.davidb.org>
In-Reply-To: <471408B8.8080509@bluelane.com>

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 05:41:28PM -0700, Pete/Piet Delaney wrote:

>Try tkdiff and then tell me you don't find it easier to read that
>the straight output from diff.

Both. Most of the time, I find the diff output easier to read. Only when a change modifies a whole bunch of lines sprinkled around do I find the side-by-side format easier. Even then, it is only marginal.

However, asking for a side-by-side diff viewer is probably the most common request I've gotten from people I work with starting to use git.

David

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