From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:50:11 GMT Subject: Re: Git difftool / mergetool on directory tree Message-ID: <7vliqfqbzg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <201112141725.14729.trast@student.ethz.ch> Thomas Rast writes: > 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.