Re: [Arx-users] Diff visualization tools?

[Walter Landry]

Kevin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> Not ArX-specific questions, but definitely relevant to using ArX.
> 
> Are there any tools that can display a multi-file diff in a friendly 
> way? Something like what some SCM cgi web tools generate[1], but in the 
> form of a non-web GUI tool? Perhaps showing each file's changes in a 
> different tab.

Most of them do this.  In particular, dirdiff, kdiff3, kompare,
xxdiff, and meld will show differences between two directories.  Some
use new windows, others use tabs.  mgdiff, imediff, and tkdiff don't
have this.

> Are there any tools that, given a working directory and a diff file, can 
> show present a two-panel GUI vision projecting the effects if you were 
> to apply the diff? Something like meld, but the inputs would be a 
> directory and a diff file, instead of two directories.

Emacs is the only thing I know of

  http://wiki.gnuarch.org/Process_20_2a_2erej_20files

Cheers,
Walter