[Qt-creator] Qt Creator and version control: Invoke visual diff viewer on diff

[Alfonso Chartier]

Thank Eike. I see the Tools / Diff... menu now. I like how the visual diff
is integrated into the IDE (as opposed to calling an external program an
opening a separate window).

I was wondering though, do you have plans to allow the user to do a git
diff on the current file? Currently you are required to browse to the two
files separately, which takes quite a bit of time. If there were a quick
way to just do a diff against the repo for the currently-open file that
would be great (maybe add an entry to the right-click menu or Tools / Git
menu).

I realize this is still experimental, so if you already have plans for
this, please disregard my comment. :)

Best,

Alfonso


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Ziller Eike <Eike.Ziller at digia.com> wrote:

>
> On 15.04.2013, at 20:50, Alfonso Chartier <alfonso.chartier at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am very much interested in trying the experimental visual diff viewer
> but am unable to find it in the Qt Creator 2.7 UI (I don't see it under
> Tools / Git and nothing specific to it is listed under the Installed
> Plugins list). How can I try it out/invoke it?
>
> The plugin is "About Plugins > Qt Creator > DiffEditor"
> Afaik it adds a menu item Tools > Diff… and an editor for mimetype
> "text/x-patch".
>
> Br, Eike
>
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Dini Chillet <dini.chillet at fukuda.ch>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just tried the "diff viewer".
> > Its so great, we are waiting for this feature since the beginning.
> >
> > How can we make feedback?
> > I know, it is experimental, so maybe this is the good time to make some
> suggestions, isnt it?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Best Regards.
> > Dini
> >
> >
> >
> > On 03/05/2013 09:00 PM, André Pönitz wrote:
> >> On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 06:10:17PM -0800, Alfonso Chartier wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I am wondering if there is an easy way to bring up a visual diff
> >>> viewer when the diff operation is invoked. Currently, performing a
> >>> diff (Alt + S, Alt + D) brings up a read-only text-based diff in the
> >>> editor. It would be great if a visual diff viewer could be launched
> >>> instead (e.g., Meld).
> >>>
> >>> Is there an easy way to configure this? I did not notice any options
> >>> for this under Tools / Options / Version Control.
> >>>
> >> You can configure external tools in Tools->Options->Environemnt
> >> ->External Tools, and also assign keyboard short cuts for
> >> launching them
> >>
> >> Note also that 2.7 will have an experimental diff viewer plugin
> >> and that the plan is to fully integrate that with the other
> >> plugins in the 2.8 cycle.
> >>
> >> Andre'
> >>
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