Comments on: git: full-length side-by-side diffs

By: Sachin Bharadwaj

Sachin Bharadwaj — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:36:03 +0000

This was a super cool tip. I love vimdiff. A million thanks!

By: Jojo

Jojo — Mon, 18 May 2009 06:10:49 +0000

Wow, cool!

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 18 May 2009 03:17:38 +0000

difftool is in git 1.6.3 and later.

By: Jojo

Jojo — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:59:39 +0000

Well, difftool isn’t part of the git-installation but part of the git repository, so you gonna have to clone it.
Second I don’t know in which version difftool was introduced.

By: diN0bot

diN0bot — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:46:11 +0000

difftool doesn’t seem to be part of the git i installed (git version 1.5.6.3)

i can’t find a contrib directory for git, nor where to download the difftool script.

i’m kind of clueless. anyone mind stating the obvious? where can i get difftool?

thanks :-)

By: Jojo

Jojo — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:58:40 +0000

Yeah, kompare is cool too. Though I prefer vimdiff for the simple reason that I do all my editing/mail-writing in vim and so know my way around the editor and don’t have to re-learn how to do things ;)

By: KT

KT — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:49:54 +0000

Nice. I also like “Kompare” tool which is a graphical diff viewer. It can take input from stdin so piping from Git commands works. Examples:

git show | kompare -
git diff HEAD~4.. | kompare -

By: Jojo

Jojo — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:37:19 +0000

Hehe, cool, now I know that some people on Planet Larrythecow do read my posts :P

By: thewtex

thewtex — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:03:54 +0000

Cool tip. Added a patched version of dev-util/git to my funtoo fork.