From: David Aguilar Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:02:14 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] gitk: Use git-difftool for external diffs Message-ID: <20100408090211.GA31594@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201004021332.53562.markus.heidelberg@web.de> On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 12:32:53PM +0100, Markus Heidelberg wrote: > David Aguilar, 2010-03-31 04:09: > > This teaches gitk about git-difftool. A benefit of this change > > is that gitk's external diff feature now works with read-only > > repositories. > > > > Signed-off-by: David Aguilar > > Tested-by: Markus Heidelberg Paul, you haven't replied yet but I do remember you mentioning that you like to keep gitk backwards-compat with older git. I have a newer version of this patch that checks for the existence of difftool --extcmd= before trying to use it. It'll be PATCH v5. -- David