Re: [Arx-users] Diff visualization tools?

[Kevin Smith]

Walter Landry wrote:
> Kevin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > 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.

I guess I wasn't clear. The use is when someone sends me a patch file. 
Before I bother to apply it, I would like to see what it is trying to do.

The simple version would be a tool that I can hand just a diff file (one 
that might be fed to patch), and have it display it in a friendly way.

The cooler option would be a tool that would take a directory plus that 
patch file, and show the before and after as if I had already applied it.

As far as I can tell, all the tools you mentioned can only display a 
diff between two files or between two directories. Aside from possibly 
the emacs thingy, but I don't use emacs.

I was pointed to this by the author, which describes a tool that looks 
like it should handle my simple case:
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/21/121

Thanks,

Kevin