From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:20:47 GMT
Subject: Re: git-difftool
Message-ID: <200812311520.47999.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
In-Reply-To: <402731c90812311211p548c49d3p100f79ddee7163b0@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday 2008 December 31 14:11:07 you wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:
> > David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> writes:
> >> 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>*]
> >
> > Is it not a complex way of saying
> >
> >        GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF=xxdiff git diff
> >
> > ?
>
> Hmm... in theory, yes, but in practice, no.
> xxdiff is too gimp to handle what 'git diff' hands it =)

What about something like:
git diff | xxdiff -

I normally use:
git diff | kompare -

and it works fine.
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