From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: How to Import a bitkeeper repo into git Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:22:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <598689.78740.qm@web56015.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <20070709173720.GS29994@genesis.frugalware.org> <4713FA4A.5090501@bluelane.com> <20071016011212.GA609@old.davidb.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Cc: Pete/Piet Delaney , VMiklos , free cycle , git@vger.kernel.org To: David Brown X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 16 03:23:37 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ihb9k-00053t-K3 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:23:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756882AbXJPBX0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:23:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756190AbXJPBX0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:23:26 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:56327 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756344AbXJPBXZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:23:25 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [207.189.120.55]) by smtp2.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id l9G1MxD4012181 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:23:00 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id l9G1MxYT002461; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:22:59 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20071016011212.GA609@old.davidb.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.717 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 207.189.120.14 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, David Brown wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 05:45:44PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > git diff -U99 | viewdiff - > > Do you have reference for viewdiff. I can't seem to locate it. That was the stupid script I just posted ;) > > [ Quite frankly, I don't understand why tools like meld and kdiff3 can't > > just take the unified diff directly - they have *all* the logic, it should > > be trivial to do, and very useful to view diffs for those people who like > > that graphical bling. ] > > kompare can read the unified diffs. If you add enough context, the result > is no different than the full files. Ahh, good pointer. I had to google for it to find that it's part of the kdesdk package, which I hadn't installed. But a simple "yum install kdesdk" worked fine. Much better than my stupid script ;) Linus