On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 8:34 AM, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> 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.
tbdiff is awesome; thanks for bringing it in as a builtin to git. I've run through a few cases, comparing output of tbdiff and branch-diff. So far, what I've noted is that they produce largely the same output except that: - tbdiff seems to shorten shas to 7 characters, branch-diff is using 10, in git.git at least. (Probably a good change) - tbdiff aligned output columns better when there were more than 9 patches (I'll comment more on patch 09/18) - As noted elsewhere in the review of round 1, tbdiff uses difflib while branch-diff uses xdiff. I found some cases where that mattered, and in all of them, I either felt like the difference was irrelevant or that difflib was suboptimal, so this is definitely an improvement for me. - branch-diff produces it's output faster, and it is automatically paged. This is really cool. Also, I don't have bash-completion for either tbdiff or branch-diff. :-( But I saw some discussion on the v1 patches about how this gets handled... :-) Elijah
