Re: difftool, open all diff files immediately, not in serial

From

Seba Illingworth <seba.illingworth@gmail.com>

Date

Aug 20, 2009, 01:39 UTC

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<loom.20090820T033212-722@post.gmane.org>

In-Reply-To

<200908042347.48705.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast <at> student.ethz.ch> writes:

> I posted the script below on IRC the other week[1] in reply to someone
> looking for a way to do this for 'meld'.  I'm not sure this is the
> *fastest* way to do this, but I'm at least trying to take a few
> shortcuts...

I've come up with a simple script that diffs the files in a background task:

  for name in $(git diff --name-only $1); do git difftool $1 $name & done

Then aliased the script for usage:

  git diffall [--staged]