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Re: Compare two diffs on the command line?

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PSPhil Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
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Sep 4, 2015, 19:23 UTC
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On 9/4/2015 2:10 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Phil Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> If you have a commit that exists on two branches, in gitk you can mark one,
>> then select the other and choose to compare the two.  This results in a diff
>> of the two diffs, rather than a diff between the two trees, which include
>> many other changes that have nothing to do with either commit.
>
> I think you are looking for the interdiff(1) tool.

Yes, that is how I would do it before git... I was thinking there would be a git way of doing it, especially since it is there in gitk.

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