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Re: Git difftool / mergetool on directory tree

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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Dec 14, 2011, 16:25 UTC
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<201112141725.14729.trast@student.ethz.ch>
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Daniele Segato wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> many diff / merge tool around have the ability to compare a directory 
> tree (meld is one, but there are many).
> 
> Is there a way to start a difftool or a mergetool on a folder instead of 
> the single file?
> 
> It would be an handsome feature to git.
> 
> I googled a little before popping out this question and I only found 
> suggestion on how to open "many" file at once instead of opening them 
> serially but that's not the same thing not as powerful as directory 
> comparison.
Maybe this helps:
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/144839
It was never applied however.
-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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