Is there a way to view complete git diff using a GUI tool?

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Is there a combination of a GUI diff viewer and a git configuration that would allow me to view all modified files at once? Currently I use git difftool and it invokes a separate diff viewer for each file. It would be great if there was a way to force git to put both versions of all modified files somewhere and invoke the diff tool for all of them only once.

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gituser-interfacediff
Do you want to see all of them in the same window, or do you want to issue only a single command to diff them all? If it is the former, to what end? - Urs Reupke
I like to use p4merge as such a tool, but it opens one window per conflict, and I am not sure any other tool does what you want - Vince
possible duplicate of git difftool, open all diff files immediately, not in serial - legoscia

4 Answers

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Since git 1.7.11, difftool supports directory comparison:

"git difftool" learned the "--dir-diff" option to spawn external diff tools that can compare two directory hierarchies at a time after populating two temporary directories, instead of running an instance of the external tool once per a file pair.

So you could combine it with an external diff tool, as mentioned in "use Winmerge inside of Git to file diff".

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With svn I use KDE "kompare" program to view all files at ones.

Like here:

svn diff > output
kompare output

or directly:

svn diff | kompare

also there are Gnom "meld", which supposed to do the same thing (but I didn't tried it yet).

The same should be applicable for git.

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Have a look at Atlassian SourceTree. It's a free Git Client for Windows & Mac.

I'm using it since the beta. And it's really the best tool ive ever used for git in my opinion.

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Say goodbye to the command line – use the full capability of Git and Mercurial in the SourceTree desktop app. Manage all your repositories, hosted or local, through SourceTree's simple interface.

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More informations under:

http://blog.bitbucket.org/2013/03/19/introducing-sourcetree-git-client-microsoft-windows/ http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/

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The Bazaar Explorer is quite nice. I think you can get it work with Git by using Plugin (Bazaar Git Support Plugin).

Git GUI like Bzr Explorer but for Git?