From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:22:59 GMT Subject: Re: How to Import a bitkeeper repo into git Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20071016011212.GA609@old.davidb.org> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, David Brown wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 05:45:44PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > git diff -U99 | viewdiff - > > Do you have reference for viewdiff. I can't seem to locate it. That was the stupid script I just posted ;) > > [ 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. ] > > 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