Re: diff display
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:10:15 +0200, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
<raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> wrote:
> James A. Donald wrote:
>
> > Can I get file changes recorded in git to display the
> > way they do in windows?
>
> I am surprised that no one has told this till now.
>
> The main purpose of diff is to generate a patch which can then be used to
> apply/revert changes across two versions of a file. The output produced by
> diff can do that very efficiently. It is very compact and elegant format of
> showing differences between two files (although it requires a trained eye).
> If you want to get acquainted with diff output, read its documentation by
> doing 'info diff'.
>
> As for your problem, try vimdiff or gvimdiff (graphical version of vimdiff).
> These two programs do what you want.
gvimdiff seems to do what I want.
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