Re: How to Import a bitkeeper repo into git

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Oct 16, 2007, 01:22 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710151815230.6887@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071016011212.GA609@old.davidb.org>

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, David Brown wrote:

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> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 05:45:44PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> > 	git diff -U99 | viewdiff -
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> Do you have reference for viewdiff.  I can't seem to locate it.

That was the stupid script I just posted ;)

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> > [ Quite frankly, I don't understand why tools like meld and kdiff3 can't
> > just take the unified diff directly - they have *all* the logic, it  should
> > be trivial to do, and very useful to view diffs for those people  who like
> > that graphical bling. ]
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> kompare can read the unified diffs.  If you add enough context, the result
> is no different than the full files.

Ahh, good pointer. I had to google for it to find that it's part of the kdesdk package, which I hadn't installed. But a simple "yum install kdesdk" worked fine.

Much better than my stupid script ;)

		Linus