From: Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:39:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [wishlist] graphical diff
Message-ID: <46d6db660703181439g277c2c67t22462d360cec5a7b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1174223784.5987.6.camel@localhost>

On 3/18/07, Raimund Bauer <ray007@gmx.net> wrote:
> I think it would be really helpful (especially for newbies like me) to
> have an option like
>
> git diff --gui [revisions] <singe path spec>
>
> to fire up a graphical diff viewer (similar to what git-mergetool does).
>
> Another good place to start a graphical diff from is probably gitk from
> a context-menu for the changed files in the lower right pane.
>
> Thoughts?
>

gvimdiff is pretty cool. Have a look at the archives, I asked
recently how to perform this, and a few solutions came out
(you need a sane shell, and the abilities to create fifos).

I'd use it everyday if a true vim/gvim explorer plugin would
exist (and it's hard to code!).

-- 
Christian