On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 11:05 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<ava...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 03 2018, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>> The incredibly useful `git-tbdiff` tool to compare patch series (say, to see
>> what changed between two iterations sent to the Git mailing list) is slightly
>> less useful for this developer due to the fact that it requires the 
>> `hungarian`
>> and `numpy` Python packages which are for some reason really hard to build in
>> MSYS2. So hard that I even had to give up, because it was simply easier to
>> reimplement the whole shebang as a builtin command.
>>
>> The project at https://github.com/trast/tbdiff seems to be dormant, anyway.
>> Funny (and true) story: I looked at the open Pull Requests to see how active
>> that project is, only to find to my surprise that I had submitted one in 
>> August
>> 2015, and that it was still unanswered let alone merged.
>
> I've been using branch-diff and haven't found issues with it yet, it
> works like tbdiff but better. Faster, uses the same diff as git
> (better), and spews to the pager by default.

I'm hoping to take a look at this as well, I remember looking into
tbdiff in the past, but also had trouble getting it to work. I've
tried a variety of similar things, including 4-way parent diffs, but
nothing quite gave the results I expected.

Thanks!

Regards,
Jake

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