RE: [wishlist] graphical diff

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 19, 2007, 13:00 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703191359380.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <001001c769fe$af8f4400$0b0aa8c0@abf.local>

Hi,

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Raimund Bauer wrote:

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> On Monday, March 19, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > söndag 18 mars 2007 14:16 skrev Raimund Bauer:
> > > > I think it would be really helpful (especially for 
> > newbies like me) 
> > > > to have an option like
> > > > 
> > > > git diff --gui [revisions] <singe path spec>
> > 
> > And how do you set _what_ gui you want? Everybody has her pet 
> > diff-viewer 
> > (mine is less, BTW).
> 
> Maybe with a git.gui config option (like merge.tool)?
> Or by specifying on the commandline:
> 
> git diff --gui=<my-gui-differ> ...
> 
> And <my-gui-differ> = xxdiff | kompare | tkdiff | ...

Have you actually looked at the patch I sent? It is more logical to say "git -p=<bla> diff ..." when the option "-p" (without "=") already exists.

Ciao, Dscho