Using kdiff3 to compare two different revisions of a folder

>     I would like to use kdiff3 to compare some folder like "include"
> between two different revisions.
>     It would be something like "git diff v2.5:makefile HEAD:makefile",
> but for an entire folder.
> 
>     Kdiff3 give me a quick glance of its nice graphical output of the
> differences, without have to resort to looking/parsing 'git log'
> output.
>     For now, easiest way for me is to keep my tree replicated in two
> different folders pointing to different revisions then use it.
> 
>     Is there a better way to do this kind of comparison?

>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:44:07PM -0200, André Goddard Rosa wrote:
> >     I would like to use kdiff3 to compare some folder like "include"
> > between two different revisions.
> >     It would be something like "git diff v2.5:makefile HEAD:makefile",
> > but for an entire folder.
> >
> >     Kdiff3 give me a quick glance of its nice graphical output of the
> > differences, without have to resort to looking/parsing 'git log'
> > output.
> >     For now, easiest way for me is to keep my tree replicated in two
> > different folders pointing to different revisions then use it.
> >
> >     Is there a better way to do this kind of comparison?
>
> Maybe you want something like this?  This uses kdiff3 to compare two
> full commits, by extracting the changed files into a temporary location.
> Modifying it so it can work with path limiters and/or take arguments
> exactly like 'git diff' is left as an excercise for the reader.
>
> -bcd
>
> #!/bin/sh -e
>
> # usage: git-kdiff3 commit1 commit2
>
> SUBDIRECTORY_OK=1
> . git-sh-setup
> cd_to_toplevel
>
> O=".git-kdiff3-tmp-$$"
> list="$O/list"
> trap "rm -rf $O" 0
> mkdir $O
>
> git diff --name-only -z $1 $2 > $list
>
> cat $list | xargs -0 git archive --prefix=a/ $1 | tar xf - -C $O
> cat $list | xargs -0 git archive --prefix=b/ $2 | tar xf - -C $O
>
> kdiff3 $O/a $O/b
>

> Hi, all!
> 
>     I would like to use kdiff3 to compare some folder like "include"
> between two different revisions.
>     It would be something like "git diff v2.5:makefile HEAD:makefile",
> but for an entire folder.
> 
>     Kdiff3 give me a quick glance of its nice graphical output of the
> differences, without have to resort to looking/parsing 'git log'
> output.
>     For now, easiest way for me is to keep my tree replicated in two
> different folders pointing to different revisions then use it.
> 
>     Is there a better way to do this kind of comparison?

> >     Is there a better way to do this kind of comparison?
>
> Yes.
>         git diff <whatever options> | kompare -
>

> > >     Is there a better way to do this kind of comparison?
> >
> > Yes.
> >         git diff <whatever options> | kompare -
> >
> 
> Thanks, Robin! It works too.

> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 22:36:34 -0200, André Goddard Rosa wrote:
> > > >     Is there a better way to do this kind of comparison?
> > >
> > > Yes.
> > >         git diff <whatever options> | kompare -
> > >
> >
> > Thanks, Robin! It works too.
>
> It should be noted, that kompare seems to be the only graphical tool willing
> to accept patch instead of two trees. Unfortunately it does not seem possible
> to install it without KDE, not to speak about Windows (where kdiff3 works
> quite well).
>