From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." Subject: Re: git-difftool Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:20:47 -0600 Message-ID: <200812311520.47999.bss@iguanasuicide.net> References: <20081226013021.GA15414@gmail.com> <402731c90812311211p548c49d3p100f79ddee7163b0@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3661209.63DSc9LlQF"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Matthieu Moy" To: "David Aguilar" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 01 06:50:15 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LIGRg-0004QU-T3 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 06:50:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751793AbZAAFsu (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jan 2009 00:48:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751765AbZAAFst (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jan 2009 00:48:49 -0500 Received: from rei.iguanasuicide.net ([209.20.91.252]:37694 "EHLO rei.iguanasuicide.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751606AbZAAFst (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jan 2009 00:48:49 -0500 Received: from ip70-185-247-131.ok.ok.cox.net ([70.185.247.131] helo=[192.168.1.106]) by rei.iguanasuicide.net with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_DSS_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LIGQI-0006zi-Ep; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:48:46 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 In-Reply-To: <402731c90812311211p548c49d3p100f79ddee7163b0@mail.gmail.com> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy. X-Virus-Scanned: clamav@iguanasuicide.net Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --nextPart3661209.63DSc9LlQF Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 2008 December 31 14:11:07 you wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Matthieu Moy wrot= e: > > David Aguilar 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 [*] > > > > Is it not a complex way of saying > > > > GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF=3Dxxdiff git diff > > > > ? > > Hmm... in theory, yes, but in practice, no. > xxdiff is too gimp to handle what 'git diff' hands it =3D) What about something like: git diff | xxdiff - I normally use: git diff | kompare - and it works fine. =2D-=20 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,=3D ,-_-. =3D.=20 bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-'=20 http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ =20 --nextPart3661209.63DSc9LlQF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAklb4i8ACgkQdNbfk+86fC1vFwCfWuoKujPH/3ahyT8ZYGsUs/gk 3jAAn2Y90de4hXcrZUvGLVPSbX4PpmmK =oxc7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3661209.63DSc9LlQF--