Re: [PATCH 00/18] Add `branch-diff`, a `tbdiff` lookalike
- From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
- Date
- May 3, 2018, 21:07 UTC
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- <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1805032307160.77@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
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- <87po2cy5qd.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
Hi Ævar,
On Thu, 3 May 2018, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
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> On Thu, May 03 2018, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > The incredibly useful `git-tbdiff` tool to compare patch series (say, > > to see what changed between two iterations sent to the Git mailing > > list) is slightly less useful for this developer due to the fact that > > it requires the `hungarian` and `numpy` Python packages which are for > > some reason really hard to build in MSYS2. So hard that I even had to > > give up, because it was simply easier to reimplement the whole shebang > > as a builtin command. > > > > The project at https://github.com/trast/tbdiff seems to be dormant, > > anyway. Funny (and true) story: I looked at the open Pull Requests to > > see how active that project is, only to find to my surprise that I had > > submitted one in August 2015, and that it was still unanswered let > > alone merged. > > I've been using branch-diff and haven't found issues with it yet, it > works like tbdiff but better. Faster, uses the same diff as git > (better), and spews to the pager by default.
Thanks for your enthusiasm! Dscho