Seba Illingworth wrote: > The default git diff behavior is to open each diff file in serial > (wait for previous file to be closed before opening next file). > > I'm looking for a way to open all the files at once - in BeyondCompare > for example this would open all the files in tabs within the same BC window. I posted the script below on IRC the other week[1] in reply to someone looking for a way to do this for 'meld'. I'm not sure this is the *fastest* way to do this, but I'm at least trying to take a few shortcuts ;-) Since this is now the second request for such a tool, it would be nice if you could at least shape this as a contrib/ patch (if it fits your needs, of course). [1] http://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/git?date=2009-07-14#l2180 -- 8< -- #!/bin/sh . "$(git --exec-path)/git-sh-setup" cd_to_toplevel # for the tar below pre="${1-HEAD}" post="$2" tmp="$(mktemp -d)" cleanup () { rm -rf $tmp } trap cleanup EXIT mkdir "$tmp"/a "$tmp"/b if [ -n "$post" ]; then git diff --name-only "$pre" "$post" > "$tmp"/filelist while read name; do mkdir -p "$tmp"/b/"$(dirname "$name")" git show "$post":"$name" > "$tmp"/b/"$name" done < "$tmp"/filelist else git diff --name-only "$pre" > "$tmp"/filelist tar -c -T "$tmp"/filelist | (cd "$tmp"/b && tar -x) fi while read name; do mkdir -p "$tmp"/a/"$(dirname "$name")" git show "$pre":"$name" > "$tmp"/a/"$name" done < "$tmp"/filelist cd "$tmp" #meld a b diff -ur a b -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html