Re: How to Import a bitkeeper repo into git - Had a few questions on Qgit; I like the GUI.
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Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
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- Oct 18, 2007, 21:12 UTC
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torsdag 18 oktober 2007 skrev Marco Costalba:
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> On 10/17/07, Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > So does the other tools I have checked at that time. > > But I don't know if this fixes the problem of slowness reported. A > little test Pete may do is just as I have written in the former email: > try to save the big files that cause troubles where he prefers and run > Kompare on them directly from the command line. > > Is kompare faster? If no probably the 'pipe' technique will not solve > the problem and shrinks the applicability of the external diff > launcher to tools that handle diffs directly.
kompare is pretty fast. Obviously not as fast as less.
"git diff HEAD HEAD~1000|kompare -" takes less than two seconds (hot cache) on my machine. With small diffs it is almost instantaneous.
-- robin