From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:39:34 GMT
Subject: Re: help with git usage
Message-ID: <m3hcdjocdc.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <cac9e4380804300122v4f23251cqbc36640a07379c8@mail.gmail.com>

"Richard Quirk" <richard.quirk@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Daniel Quinlan <danq@brtt.com> wrote:
> 
>> 3) Similarly, I can't use the little context diffs I can see in
>> git-gui -- I need to see side by side comparisons; I've become
>> accustomed to tkdiff.  It seems like git mergetool knows how to do
>> that in some restricted circumstances, but I want to do it outside
>> the context of a merge.
> 
> If you use Vim, I'd recommend the vcscommand plugin - see
> http://code.google.com/p/vcscommand/ - which has fairly recently added
> git support. Once installed :VCSVimDiff shows the diff side by side
> between working copy and HEAD (by default, or whatever revision you
> tell it) like a regular vimdiff between files.

Could you add infomration about this to Git Wiki
  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools
somewhere in "Editors and IDE integration" subsection?

TIA
-- 
Jakub Narebski
GNU Emacs user