Re: Git difftool / mergetool on directory tree

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 14, 2011, 17:50 UTC
Message-ID: <7vliqfqbzg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <201112141725.14729.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

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> Daniele Segato wrote:
>> 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.

A later reincarnation of a similar idea was in

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/184458/focus=184462

but the interest petered out, it seems.