From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:04:02 GMT
Subject: Re: git-difftool
Message-ID: <vpqhc4kz5zh.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20081226013021.GA15414@gmail.com>

David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> writes:

> The usual use case for this script is when you have either
> staged or unstaged changes and you'd like to see the changes
> in a side-by-side diff viewer (e.g. xxdiff, tkdiff, etc).
>
> 	git difftool [<filename>*]

Is it not a complex way of saying

        GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF=xxdiff git diff

?

(My 2 cents, and happy new year ;-)

-- 
Matthieu