From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Christian MICHON" Subject: Re: [wishlist] graphical diff Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:39:09 +0100 Message-ID: <46d6db660703181439g277c2c67t22462d360cec5a7b@mail.gmail.com> References: <1174223784.5987.6.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git To: "Raimund Bauer" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Mar 18 22:39:14 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HT35t-0007JG-Ki for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:39:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753282AbXCRVjM (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:39:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753286AbXCRVjM (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:39:12 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.171]:14258 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753282AbXCRVjL (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:39:11 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so1152464uga for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:39:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=VuWy31tiDAiQnNBMlnGoNbHooRGBDRtohxAJ2Bzot7Cd+A5DabzpUtDGFapYpXdTdDx1bIYLwq6zFPteKGu5OHSkln63E429qq7lWxV+aUCRzZT9JH+2iPLDtedUOjKRrNn2e+KCg9a3e5agnLQJaP4e8JxVDTwJLOeKsPRdL7I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=oCj/O5dgKdiqksu6yoDzMP9TvTDAtRm4c3uE26jY8bxyIHIDOuQdvwrnrKYMZAa+najYnhLV+aor7LgttssOLhzRUdvs0FCXJksqqpEyX7QDYb3wlpocsJj8P5lClSjij/xmTCeH+lGK1HnUMX+rq35IWVSM8b9sfF+l0DunBxo= Received: by 10.65.151.6 with SMTP id d6mr6278705qbo.1174253949378; Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:39:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.16.8 with HTTP; Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:39:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1174223784.5987.6.camel@localhost> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 3/18/07, Raimund Bauer wrote: > I think it would be really helpful (especially for newbies like me) to > have an option like > > git diff --gui [revisions] > > to fire up a graphical diff viewer (similar to what git-mergetool does). > > Another good place to start a graphical diff from is probably gitk from > a context-menu for the changed files in the lower right pane. > > Thoughts? > gvimdiff is pretty cool. Have a look at the archives, I asked recently how to perform this, and a few solutions came out (you need a sane shell, and the abilities to create fifos). I'd use it everyday if a true vim/gvim explorer plugin would exist (and it's hard to code!). -- Christian