On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi. > > Right now, when I use difftool --dir-diff, the temp dirs are creates as > e.g.: > /tmp/git-difftool.QqP8x/left > /tmp/git-difftool.QqP8x/right > > Wouldn't it be nice, if instead of left/right... the specified commit > name would be used? > > e.g. > /tmp/git-difftool.QqP8x/r1.1.1 > /tmp/git-difftool.QqP8x/HEAD > or > /tmp/git-difftool.QqP8x/fd4e4005a4b7b3e638bc405be020b867f8881e72 > /tmp/git-difftool.QqP8x/ce0747b74fccd20707b6f495068503e69e5473df > > Cause then, one would see in the difftool which side is what, without > the need to remember how git difftool was invoked. > > > Of course one might probably need to escape the commit names if they > contain stuff like "/" or "..", etc. I can see that being pretty helpful. If we do it we should go all the way. What do you all think about something like the output of "git describe --always" instead of the SHA-1? BTW there are some patches in-flight around difftool so you'll probably want to apply them first if you're going to give it a try. patches very much appreciated! ;-) If no one beats me to it, I can give it a try after the weekend. -- David -- 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