On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Richard Hipp <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Tomek Kott <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Is there any possibility of using different graphical diff programs for >> different types of files automatically? Specifically, tend to look at >> differences in labview files (binary files for which there is a diff program >> in meta-diff) but also text files (for which I generally prefer something >> like winmerge). I would love to be able to just use "fossil gdiff" without >> having to set the setting every time. >> > > Fossil does not keep track of the "type" of a file. So it would have no > way of knowing which diff-program to invoke. > > Why don't you write a wrapper for gdiff that looks at it file, figure out > their "type" and then invokes whichever diff program seems appropriate. > Then use "fossil setting" to get gdiff to invoke your wrapper. > Yup, that's a smart idea. Thanks; sometimes I think too hard.
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