Re: How to Import a bitkeeper repo into git - Had a few questions on Qgit; I like the GUI.

From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Oct 17, 2007, 16:00 UTC
Message-ID: <200710171800.37345.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <e5bfff550710170030y7778e96ax146acea7a0e57a67@mail.gmail.com>

onsdag 17 oktober 2007 skrev Marco Costalba:

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> On 10/17/07, Pete/Piet Delaney <pete@bluelane.com> wrote:
> >
> > While I'm looking at the diffs for a file if I pull down External Diff
> > it launches 'kcompare' but for a file with a large change it seems
> > to be running extremely slow.
> 
> qgit does not intergarte Kompare functionality, it just prepares the
> files and spawns a Kompare process.
> 
> So there's seem nothing qgit can do about Kompare speed. You can try
> with different diff viewers, meld,...etc..

You could avoid the temporary files if you just pipe the diff to kompare. That would require an option to tell qgit that the external viewer can read a git diff.

At the time qgit 1.5 was written, kompare could not handle git diffs.

-- robin