Support git mergetool/difftool with --dir-diff option - multiple files at once
SemanticMerge opens up files one at a time when I issue git difftool/mergetool commands. This is a pain since with several files when the context is important and moving back and forth between files is often necessary. Git's option --dir-diff was designed to address this - but it doesn't work with SemanticMerge. Beyond Compare supports this and as such I find myself using it more, much as I prefer the SemanticMerge UI.
James World
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Razvan Panda
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@psantosl Any update on this?
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Mattias Karlsson
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Any progress on this?
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Mattias Karlsson
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+3 on this!
Doesn't need to be an super fancy UI, just the gain to just launch the tool once instead of each file in large diffs would be a huge time saver.
Shouldn't be super hard, basically what "git difftool" with the "--dir-diff" option does is that it copies only the files to a new temporary directory, something like:
C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Local\Temp\git-difftool.[temp id]In that directory there's a left and a right directory containing just the changed files before and after, it also contains 2 git index files, but the directories should be enough.
So if SM could find all files in left, find all files in right, missing files treated as empty, then present a list/tree and let me switch between files to diff, well taht would make the tool allot more efficient.
On large diffs today it's really frustrating to open/close app for each file.
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psantosl
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Hi James,
It is a good option to add.
I've been checking it with the team today. We'll try to work on it on a couple of weeks.