Re: [PATCH v2 00/18] Add `branch-diff`, a `tbdiff` lookalike
- From
brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
- Date
- May 6, 2018, 22:56 UTC
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- <20180506225627.GB953644@genre.crustytoothpaste.net>
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- <cover.1525448066.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 05:34:27PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> The incredibly useful `git-tbdiff` tool to compare patch series (say, to see > what changed between two iterations sent to the Git mailing list) is slightly > less useful for this developer due to the fact that it requires the `hungarian` > and `numpy` Python packages which are for some reason really hard to build in > MSYS2. So hard that I even had to give up, because it was simply easier to > reimplement the whole shebang as a builtin command.
I just want to say thanks for writing this. I use tbdiff extensively at work and having this built-in and much faster will really help.
I did a once-over of v1 and I'll probably take a look at v2 or v3 (whatever's the latest) later in the week.
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