Subject: Re: Git difftool / mergetool on directory tree

From: Neal Kreitzinger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:53:01 -0600

On 12/14/2011 2:42 AM, Daniele Segato wrote:
> many diff / merge tool around have the ability to compare a directory
> tree (meld is one, but there are many).
>
> Is there a way to start a difftool or a mergetool on a folder instead of
> the single file?
>
> It would be an handsome feature to git.
>
> I googled a little before popping out this question and I only found
> suggestion on how to open "many" file at once instead of opening them
> serially but that's not the same thing not as powerful as directory
> comparison.
>
(This works with kdiff3 as the mergetool/difftool on git 1.7.1 on linux):

git difftool <commit>:<dir>/ <commit-2>:<dir>/

e.g., git difftool mycommit:ourdir/ yourcommit:ourdir/

<commit> = pointer to a commit (ie: sha-1, branchname, tag, ref)
<dir> = path of dir relative to worktree

v/r,
neal