Re: [wishlist] graphical diff

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 19, 2007, 00:09 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703190107410.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200703190051.46954.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

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> måndag 19 mars 2007 00:09 skrev Johannes Schindelin:
> 
> > At any rate, have you tried something like "GIT_PAGER='kompare -' git 
> > diff HEAD^..HEAD"?
>
> Doesn't work here. Shows empty diff...
> 
> but AH, that's because of the colored-diff settings. I you have 
> color.diff or color.status set to true neither version will work.

I wonder why we still have "color.diff=true", which is wrong in almost _all_ cases (instead it should be auto).

> With auto the first one will, but not the second.

That is to be expected... Git actually expects the pager to be just that, a pager. So you have to say

$ GIT_PAGER='kompare -' git diff --no-color HEAD^..HEAD

Hth, Dscho