From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: My git-gui difftool script Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:36:51 +0100 Message-ID: <4D5E2193.1050103@fastmail.fm> References: <4D5D4CA0.8040301@fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Chunlin Zhang X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 18 08:40:13 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 1PqKwm-00073j-Ex for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:40:12 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754117Ab1BRHkE (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Feb 2011 02:40:04 -0500 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:59115 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753352Ab1BRHkB (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Feb 2011 02:40:01 -0500 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3394520BDC; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 02:40:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 18 Feb 2011 02:40:01 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=QT5WIy7LIF3NXENSNx5w2UzZX48=; b=LH/YzHCd4RbxbNWurIRFBdmIqgFgjEvyoBepN6JwRemIkKQvpR/N7Dk0iMUPG7/DHvDKLFQOUXQ4qh9f0Q5v+5mflnWW3qPuvZhoga5e/EIXPxTNuMpRThk7hbLHb3xscPU3QFNlxtsscordLbCbcytzXaONX2DgBTEHUS031a0= X-Sasl-enc: x7zycVQjtOr1EsluVoLUwtmUls6prYdyhhtqFlYvZ/Iw 1298014800 Received: from localhost.localdomain (whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.44.62]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AD714407DEE; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 02:40:00 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Chunlin Zhang venit, vidit, dixit 18.02.2011 02:12: > Michael J Gruber fastmail.fm> writes: > >> >> >> I don't want to spoil the party, but how is this different from using >> "git difftool -y $FILENAME" for the command? > > Because in git-gui I can know which files are modified and which file are staged > more clearly and directly,and I can examine the diff over and over again if I > like. Well, of course, but in git-gui's Tools menu you can use "git difftool -y $FILENAME" instead of "YOUR_PATH_TO_git_gui_difftool.py $FILENAME" for the command. So I'm just wondering what your new difftool.py does differently from the existing git-difftool. Michael