On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:27 PM, R. Diez <rdiezmail-buspirate@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi there: > > I asked a few days ago whether I could easily diff 2 file revisions with the mouse in gitk, but I got no reply yet, see here: > > > How to diff two file revisions with the mouse (with gitk) > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/git-users/9znsQsTB0dE > > I am hoping that it was the wrong mailing list, and this one the right one. 8-) > > Here is the full question text again: > > --------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<-------- > > I would like to start gitk, select with the mouse 2 > revisions of some file and then compare them, hopefully with an external > diff tool, very much like I am used to with WinCVS. > > The closest I > got is to start gitk with a filename as an argument, in order to > restrict the log to that one file. Then I right-click on a commit (a > file revision) and choose "Mark this commit". However, if I right-click > on another commit and choose "Compare with marked commit", I get a full > commit diff with all files, and not just the file I specified on the > command-line arguments. > > Selecting a filename in the "Tree" view and choosing "Highlight this only", as I found on the Internet, does not seem to help. > > I have git 1.7.9 (on Cygwin). Can someone help? > > By the way, it would be nice if gitk could launch the external diff tool from the "Compare with marked commit" option too. I don't know if I misunderstood the whole question because the answer is very simple. - start gitk - left click the newer commit - scroll to the older commit - right click the older commit and choose "Diff this -> selected" - in the bottom right pane, pick any file, right click, and choose "External diff". -- 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