git-difftool

Several co-workers have found this script useful. It's basically git-mergetool modified to operate on the git index/worktree. There's some things about the script that aren't very gitish (for example, the way revargs are processed) but it's useful nonetheless.

The usual use case for this script is when you have either staged or unstaged changes and you'd like to see the changes in a side-by-side diff viewer (e.g. xxdiff, tkdiff, etc).

	git difftool [<filename>*]

Another use case is when you'd like to see the same information but are comparing arbitrary commits (this is the part where the revarg parsing could be better)

	git difftool --start=HEAD^ --end=HEAD [-- <filename>*]

The last use case is when you'd like to compare your current worktree to something other than HEAD (e.g. a tag)

	git difftool --commit=v1.0.0 [-- <filename>*]

It's a generally useful script so I thought I'd share it here. If others find it useful then maybe we can fix it up and ship it along with the other useful goodies in contrib/.

enjoy,