torsdag 18 oktober 2007 skrev Marco Costalba:
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> On 10/17/07, Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> wrote:
> >
> > You could avoid the temporary files if you just pipe the diff to kompare. That
> > would require an option to tell qgit that the external viewer can read a git diff.
> >
> > At the time qgit 1.5 was written, kompare could not handle git diffs.
> >
> 
> So does the other tools I have checked at that time.
> 
> But I don't know if this fixes the problem of slowness reported. A
> little test Pete may do is just as I have written in the former email:
> try to save the big files that cause troubles where he prefers and run
> Kompare on them directly from the command line.
> 
> Is kompare faster? If no probably the 'pipe' technique will not solve
> the problem and shrinks the applicability of the external diff
> launcher to tools that handle diffs directly.

kompare is pretty fast. Obviously not as fast as less.

"git diff HEAD HEAD~1000|kompare -" takes less than two seconds (hot cache)
on my machine. With small diffs it is almost instantaneous.

-- robin
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