From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Colin S. Miller" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ediff against branch with git Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:56:38 +0100 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <4a2583f4$0$90271$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243975386 22893 80.91.229.12 (2 Jun 2009 20:43:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 20:43:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 02 22:43:01 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MBap0-0008IR-S2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:43:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41866 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MBap0-0007a1-0A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:42:58 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!uio.no!news.banetele.no!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.56.63.53 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=7LXmUmZ]FoNI[NbmUoDmmGYSB=nbEKnkKebg1>^?UCAJG1[Bg<0aH5@\VT\m5_SIbFU_42Df:PaKHTcL2h5ahoTOkF_>m>CYcVO7_doBj0I\NMoDc1FHTH@TO]01T`Rm1cHH Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169676 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:64906 Archived-At: 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 and add -R -R to the CVS command. This might work in git's CVS compatibility mode. HTH, Colin S. Miler -- Replace the obvious in my email address with the first three letters of the hostname to reply.