Hi there:
I asked a few days ago whether I could easily diff 2 file revisions with the mouse in gitk, but I got no reply yet, see here:
How to diff two file revisions with the mouse (with gitk)
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/git-users/9znsQsTB0dE
I am hoping that it was the wrong mailing list, and this one the right one. 8-)
Here is the full question text again:
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I would like to start gitk, select with the mouse 2
revisions of some file and then compare them, hopefully with an external
diff tool, very much like I am used to with WinCVS.
The closest I
got is to start gitk with a filename as an argument, in order to
restrict the log to that one file. Then I right-click on a commit (a
file revision) and choose "Mark this commit". However, if I right-click
on another commit and choose "Compare with marked commit", I get a full
commit diff with all files, and not just the file I specified on the
command-line arguments.
Selecting a filename in the "Tree" view and choosing "Highlight this only", as I found on the Internet, does not seem to help.
I have git 1.7.9 (on Cygwin). Can someone help?
By the way, it would be nice if gitk could launch the external diff tool from the "Compare with marked commit" option too.
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Thanks in advance,
rdiez
Am 06.02.2013 16:57, schrieb R. Diez:
I would like to start gitk, select with the mouse 2
revisions of some file and then compare them, hopefully with an external
diff tool, very much like I am used to with WinCVS.
The closest I
got is to start gitk with a filename as an argument, in order to
restrict the log to that one file. Then I right-click on a commit (a
file revision) and choose "Mark this commit". However, if I right-click
on another commit and choose "Compare with marked commit", I get a full
commit diff with all files, and not just the file I specified on the
command-line arguments.
Edit->Preferences, tick 'Limit diff to listed paths'.
-- Hannes
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:27 PM, R. Diez [off-list ref] wrote:
Hi there:
I asked a few days ago whether I could easily diff 2 file revisions with the mouse in gitk, but I got no reply yet, see here:
How to diff two file revisions with the mouse (with gitk)
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/git-users/9znsQsTB0dE
I am hoping that it was the wrong mailing list, and this one the right one. 8-)
Here is the full question text again:
--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------
I would like to start gitk, select with the mouse 2
revisions of some file and then compare them, hopefully with an external
diff tool, very much like I am used to with WinCVS.
The closest I
got is to start gitk with a filename as an argument, in order to
restrict the log to that one file. Then I right-click on a commit (a
file revision) and choose "Mark this commit". However, if I right-click
on another commit and choose "Compare with marked commit", I get a full
commit diff with all files, and not just the file I specified on the
command-line arguments.
Selecting a filename in the "Tree" view and choosing "Highlight this only", as I found on the Internet, does not seem to help.
I have git 1.7.9 (on Cygwin). Can someone help?
By the way, it would be nice if gitk could launch the external diff tool from the "Compare with marked commit" option too.
I don't know if I misunderstood the whole question because the answer
is very simple.
- start gitk
- left click the newer commit
- scroll to the older commit
- right click the older commit and choose "Diff this -> selected"
- in the bottom right pane, pick any file, right click, and choose
"External diff".