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List:       git
Subject:    Re: git-difftool
From:       "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss () iguanasuicide ! net>
Date:       2008-12-31 21:20:47
Message-ID: 200812311520.47999.bss () iguanasuicide ! net
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On Wednesday 2008 December 31 14:11:07 you wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:
> > David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> writes:
> >> The usual use case for this script is when you have either
> >> staged or unstaged changes and you'd like to see the changes
> >> in a side-by-side diff viewer (e.g. xxdiff, tkdiff, etc).
> >>
> >>       git difftool [<filename>*]
> >
> > Is it not a complex way of saying
> >
> >        GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF=xxdiff git diff
> >
> > ?
>
> Hmm... in theory, yes, but in practice, no.
> xxdiff is too gimp to handle what 'git diff' hands it =)

What about something like:
git diff | xxdiff -

I normally use:
git diff | kompare -

and it works fine.
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