From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Diagnosing linux-next (Was: Re: m68k libc5 regression) Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 22:37:58 -0700 Message-ID: <20080601223758.627e96e8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080601005338.3affe880.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080601232638.fda1f3ab.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20080601140415.a2f25b9d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <18499.16693.526974.912404@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20080601180616.75d1886e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <18499.22285.159342.856006@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:42618 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751549AbYFBFiH (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2008 01:38:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <18499.22285.159342.856006@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Paul Mackerras Cc: Stephen Rothwell , Linux Kernel Development , linux-next@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:12:29 +1000 Paul Mackerras wrote: > Andrew Morton writes: > > > tkdiff-style diff viewer! > > > > I mentioned that to you a year or two back, and you've probabably > > already done it but nobody told me about it :) > > There's now a facility for viewing diffs in an external viewer. If > you do Edit->Preferences and set the "External diff tool" thing to > tkdiff, then you can right-click on a file name in the file list > (bottom right-hand pane) and select "External diff" and it will launch > tkdiff to show you the diffs for that file. OK, that works, thanks. Right-clicking on each file is the sole way to bring it up? > What is it you like about tkdiff? Is it the side-by-side display, or > the highlighting of differences within a line, or the merge facility? I like the side-by-side display. I hardly look at the left (previous) side at all - it's a good way of seeing the change in a larger context.