From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: Git difftool / mergetool on directory tree Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:25:14 +0100 Message-ID: <201112141725.14729.trast@student.ethz.ch> References: <4EE8618E.7020902@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git Mailing List To: Daniele Segato X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 14 17:25:22 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rardy-00046f-4O for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:25:22 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757269Ab1LNQZS (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:25:18 -0500 Received: from edge20.ethz.ch ([82.130.99.26]:32805 "EHLO edge20.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753734Ab1LNQZQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:25:16 -0500 Received: from CAS11.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.211) by edge20.ethz.ch (82.130.99.26) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.355.2; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:25:12 +0100 Received: from thomas.inf.ethz.ch (129.132.153.233) by CAS11.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.211) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.355.2; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:25:14 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.1.3-1-desktop; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4EE8618E.7020902@gmail.com> X-Originating-IP: [129.132.153.233] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Daniele Segato wrote: > Hi, > > many diff / merge tool around have the ability to compare a directory > tree (meld is one, but there are many). > > Is there a way to start a difftool or a mergetool on a folder instead of > the single file? > > It would be an handsome feature to git. > > I googled a little before popping out this question and I only found > suggestion on how to open "many" file at once instead of opening them > serially but that's not the same thing not as powerful as directory > comparison. Maybe this helps: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/144839 It was never applied however. -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch