On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 08:19:55AM -0700, vfclists wrote: > Thanks. > > Is the viewer in question a console based graphics or a GUI based one? > > Will it work in an SSH terminal?
Both. It's configurable. The defaults ones are GUI based but you can easily configure it to use something like 'vimdiff' which uses the console. http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-difftool.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/255202/how-do-i-view-git-diff-output-with-visual-diff-program/949242#949242 > On Mar 17, 5:28 am, David Aguilar <dav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 08:40:32AM -0400, Rick DeNatale wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:19 AM, vfclists <vfcli...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Is there a git command to compare a file in your working directory > > > > against the same file in a branch or a particular commit? > > > > > git diff example_branch -- path/to/file > > > > > git diff cf3b3fd -- path/to/file > > > > > -- > > > Rick DeNatale > > > > ...and if you use 'difftool' instead of 'diff' > > you'll see the diff in a graphical side-by-side > > viewer. > > > > Are you on Linux? (only asking because installing graphical > > diff tools is typically much easier on Linux than it is on Windows). > > > > Have fun, > > > > -- > > David > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Git for human beings" group. > To post to this group, send email to git-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en. > -- David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to git-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
