On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 17:45:44 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I don't actually know of any sane programs to view unified diffs, but you > can script one with little trouble. Here's a really hacky one I just came > up with: > > #!/bin/sh > cat "$@" > /tmp/diff > grep '^[ -]' /tmp/diff > /tmp/orig > grep '^[ +]' /tmp/diff > /tmp/result > meld /tmp/orig /tmp/result > > which fools 'meld' into showing a unified diff in a nice graphical manner. > > [ Quite frankly, I don't understand why tools like meld and kdiff3 can't > just take the unified diff directly - they have *all* the logic, it > should be trivial to do, and very useful to view diffs for those people > who like that graphical bling. ] Kompare (KDE analog of meld) can. It is even bound to text/x-diff in konqueror, so opening patches with konqueror yields side-by-side diff view. On the other hand it still keeps a unixy behaviour: git diff | kompare - works. -- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx>
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