[darcs-users] Hello & Question

[Benjamin Franksen]

On Friday 12 May 2006 16:51, Tommy Pettersson wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 03:19:32PM +0200, Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> > Has anyone ever thought of adapting tkdiff to deal with darcs
> > repositories? With CVS, I can simply do 'tkdiff <filename>' and I
> > get a graphical display of the changes I made vs. the repository.
> > Or else, is there some other (GUI) tool that nicely displays darcs
> > differences?
>
> I believe the new --diff-command option (since version
> 1.0.7pre1) can do this. I is used as:
>
>   darcs diff --diff-command "tkdiff %1 %2"
>
> and can be put in one of darcs' defaults files to always have
> darcs use tkdiff to do the diff.

Thanks! I will try this with the new version.

> But diff (and tkdiff) can't show all meta information about
> changes that 'darcs changes' can show, like file renames and
> token replaces.

Yeah, of course. Nothing's perfect...

Ben