Re: ediff against branch with git

[Colin S. Miller]

George Nurser wrote:
> Hi,
> I was hoping to able to use ediff to compare the versions of a given
> file on two git branches. I couldn't see anyway to do it though. I
> have Emacs v23, with the standard version control package, and the
> latest version from the git repository of git-emacs.
>
> Am I missing something? Or is there another package that will do this?
>
> --George Nurser.
Hi George,
I don't use git,  but using cvs-mode,
the most obvious way to do it would to use
C-u d e   <ediff in cvs>
and add -R<branch-tag> -R<other-branch-tag> to the CVS command.

This might work in git's CVS compatibility mode.

HTH,
Colin S. Miler


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