From: norm@dad.org
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: norm@dad.org
Subject: Question: Getting 'git diff' to generate /usr/bin/diff output
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 12:12:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201607161912.u6GJCM79069898@shell1.rawbw.com> (raw)
I am trying to learn how to use git, and am having difficulty using 'git diff'.
I can't deal with its output very well. What I would really like to do is apply
/usr/lib/diff. Would some kind soul be willing to tell me if there is a way to
do that, short of making a backup copy of the relevant file, and then doing
'git checkout'. Maybe the '--ext-diff' argument to 'git diff' will do that,
but I can't figure out how to use it.
Thank you, most kindly.
Context:
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 6.8
git version: 2.5.1.454.g1616360
Norman Shapiro
next reply other threads:[~2016-07-16 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-16 19:12 norm [this message]
2016-07-16 20:47 ` Question: Getting 'git diff' to generate /usr/bin/diff output Perry Hutchison
2016-07-17 7:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-19 15:20 ` norm
2016-07-17 12:18 ` René Scharfe
2016-07-17 17:26 ` norm
2016-07-18 7:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-18 9:19 ` [PATCH] pager: disable color when pager is "more" Eric Wong
2016-07-18 13:16 ` Jeff King
2016-07-18 17:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-18 18:58 ` Jeff King
2016-07-19 2:37 ` Eric Wong
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