Using Diff Tools

Often we need to visually check the difference between two branches. This is a tutorial to explain how to setup meld as a visual tool.

Graphical differences of branches with meld. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

You can now see a diff between two branches/commits with: git difftool -d branch1 branch2 That's a lot of typing, though, so let's create a handy alias.

First, let's configure Meld as your git difftool: git config --global diff.tool meld. You can now see a diff between two branches/commits with:

Git also provide diff command line tool, which some users may prefer too. I am going to show you how to use Meld as a git diff tool here.

Meld has a separate UI for viewing all changes in a directory. You can filter viewing files based on if they're same, changed, new.

git difftool mybranch master -- myfile.cs If you only have meld installed git should use it as the default difftool.

Meld is capable of loading many files at once (in tabs). However when used with git difftool, Git will ask if you want to view each file.

The git diff command is the most straightforward way to see the differences between the two branches. It displays the differences between the ...

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