Standard difference viewer

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 20.07.07 19:39:34, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 20.07.07 12:36:37, dukju ahn wrote:
> > 2007/7/20, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de>:
> > > On 20.07.07 11:46:20, dukju ahn wrote:
> > > > Currently subversion plugin prints "svn diff" via plain text. I'd
> > > > like to provide option to use external diff viewer such as kompare.
> > > > The problem is that, kompare seems to be unmaintained. I tried
> > > > kdiff3 but it seems that it doesn't have any feature to display
> > > > already generated .diff file.( it just create .diff from multiples of file)
> > > >
> > > > What could be the best difference viewer for vcs diff viewer?
> > >
> > > I'm not aware of any other diff viewers. The question is: What exactly
> > > should a diff viewer do? Just display the diff with some jump
> > > forward/backward using some highlighting? That should be easily doable
> > > with kate.
> > >
> > > Or what else do you have in mind?
> > 
> > Yes. I meant the picture at
> > http://www.caffeinated.me.uk/kompare/
> > 
> > Kate can't do that right?
> 
> No, then I misunderstood you. I thought you just wanted to display a
> unified diff, but you actually want to display the differences between
> old and new version of a file (wether old comes from svn repo or not).
> 
> I suggest to look into the 3way-kompare branch,

That branch looks promising, although it seems outdated and its also not
merged into trunk/ as far as I can see :( So you better contact the
kompare devs about their plans (they already provide a kpart and a good
enough looking interface).

Andreas

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