From: Dun Peal <dunpealer@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:22:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Can `add --patch` display the diff in my difftool instead of just printing it on the command line?
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In-Reply-To: <20101214213810.GB2216@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> You can't do this with "git add -p" now, but I suspect the patch would
> be relatively straightforward. See patch_update_file in
> git-add--interactive.perl. You just need to replace:
>
>  for (@{$head->{DISPLAY}}) {
>    print;
>  }
>
> with code to dump the diff in @{$head->{TEXT}} either to stdin of your
> display program or to a tempfile that your program operates on.
> Conditional on having some config option to specify your program, of
> course.

That's exactly what I want, thanks. Seems like there should be a flag
/ config that tells `add --interactive` to render the diffs through a
difftool. I know several Git users who always use their difftools for
large, complex patches, which are exactly the kind of patches you'd
manage with --interactive / --patch. Hope one of you Git bigwigs takes
the time to add that feature :-)

.D