Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@xxxxxx> writes: > Matthieu Moy, 01.01.2009: >> "David Aguilar" <davvid@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > Hmm... in theory, yes, but in practice, no. >> > xxdiff is too gimp to handle what 'git diff' hands it =) >> >> As done with "vimdiff" in another message, simply write a one-liner >> wrapper script that calls xxdiff $2 $3, and call this wrapper script. > > This works with GUI tools, but not with console tools. Actually, it does if you call git --no-pager. > GVim works, Vim > doesn't. > And invoking > git difftool > is by far more convenient than > GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF=vimdiff git diff Right, but a script "git-difftool" calling the later is a one-liner, so 2 one-liners give you the same result as the ~500 lines script proposed. And GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF has the great advantage of being maintained together with git, and will most likely handle all cases (diff between index, working tree, arbitrary commit, ...) correctly. -- Matthieu -- 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
