Re: [RFD] Strange patch formats (aka tricks with unified diffs)..

On 4/12/07, Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

So I can see two ways to fix this:
 - bug Paul about alternate diff viewing capabilities in gitk. He's cc'd
   here. A way to make the "diff" pane show just the new one, the old one,
   or even both side-by-side with some mousy interface?
 - add some actual switch to git diff generation to hide the negative side
   of a unified diff, and add some way to just make gitk pass that switch
   in.

I dunno. I realize that it's not just gitk - gitweb, qgit etc don't allow
the tricks *either*, but gitk was the one I just hit this with.

Currently in qgit you can select a revision + a file and call an
external diff viewer, as example Kompare (tweakable from
'Edir->settings->External diff viewer' menu) to view the diff
side-by-side, or in any other way the viewer allows, for the selected
file.

I like also the idea to hide the negative side but I would rather
prefer a togglable command/button instead of a command line argument
or a setting, so to allow easy and quick hide/unhide on the same
patch.

I will work on it..... ;-)

Thanks for idea
Marco