Re: [PATCH 00/18] Add `branch-diff`, a `tbdiff` lookalike
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Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
- Date
- May 3, 2018, 21:50 UTC
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On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 11:05 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Thu, May 03 2018, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > >> The incredibly useful `git-tbdiff` tool to compare patch series (say, to see >> what changed between two iterations sent to the Git mailing list) is slightly >> less useful for this developer due to the fact that it requires the `hungarian` >> and `numpy` Python packages which are for some reason really hard to build in >> MSYS2. So hard that I even had to give up, because it was simply easier to >> reimplement the whole shebang as a builtin command. >> >> The project at https://github.com/trast/tbdiff seems to be dormant, anyway. >> Funny (and true) story: I looked at the open Pull Requests to see how active >> that project is, only to find to my surprise that I had submitted one in August >> 2015, and that it was still unanswered let alone merged. > > I've been using branch-diff and haven't found issues with it yet, it > works like tbdiff but better. Faster, uses the same diff as git > (better), and spews to the pager by default.
I'm hoping to take a look at this as well, I remember looking into tbdiff in the past, but also had trouble getting it to work. I've tried a variety of similar things, including 4-way parent diffs, but nothing quite gave the results I expected.
Thanks!
Regards, Jake