From: Marco Costalba Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:38:31 GMT Subject: Re: [RFD] Strange patch formats (aka tricks with unified diffs).. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 4/12/07, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > So I can see two ways to fix this: > - bug Paul about alternate diff viewing capabilities in gitk. He's cc'd > here. A way to make the "diff" pane show just the new one, the old one, > or even both side-by-side with some mousy interface? > - add some actual switch to git diff generation to hide the negative side > of a unified diff, and add some way to just make gitk pass that switch > in. > > I dunno. I realize that it's not just gitk - gitweb, qgit etc don't allow > the tricks *either*, but gitk was the one I just hit this with. Currently in qgit you can select a revision + a file and call an external diff viewer, as example Kompare (tweakable from 'Edir->settings->External diff viewer' menu) to view the diff side-by-side, or in any other way the viewer allows, for the selected file. I like also the idea to hide the negative side but I would rather prefer a togglable command/button instead of a command line argument or a setting, so to allow easy and quick hide/unhide on the same patch. I will work on it..... ;-) Thanks for idea Marco