Re: [Attn - repository browser authors] diff-tree combined format.

From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 4, 2006, 12:03 UTC
Message-ID: <e5bfff550602040403k293b02e5sce17eecbf41c008e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v1wykceic.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 2/3/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com> writes:
>
> This reminds me of one thing.  One thing I did not like about
> the colouring of gitk on an Octopus was that it repeats the same
> parents in different colors, wasting lines.  From diff-tree -c
> output, one thing coloured diff browsers _could_ do is to let
> the user pick one parent and paint the lines to make the
> differences from that parent alone stand out.
>

Both qgit and gitk have the 'diff to selected rev' feature.

What about integrate combined output with exsisting 'diff to selected' functionality to reach what you are proposing?

Put in other words, an user selects the parent (CTRL + right click in qgit) and only the corresponding interesting diffs is shown.

For this to work it is necessary (at least in qgit) something like

   git-diff-tree -c -r -m -p <sha1> <sha2>

Marco