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aspirant_sensei
aspirant_sensei

Reputation: 1673

How to compare commits like TFVC changesets?

We've made the jump from TFVC to Git within TFS, and it's working really well - however the only thing I can't quite figure out is how you can see ALL differences between two specific commits?

i.e.

(entire repo as of commit X - DIFFED AGAINST - entire repo as of commit Y)

In TFVC land, you could simply compare an entire changeset against a previous changeset, in a nice list with one set of files on the left, one on the right, different files marked in red - and you can click into an individual file to view the diff.

This was awesome to get a feel for how an application worked at one point in time compared to now.

The thing is, I can't seem to find this functionality baked in anywhere, or in any third-party (free) tools! I can see the code that changed per commit but this is no way near an effective view than what we are used to as a department, and some people are bemoaning the switch (despite all the positives).

Upvotes: 1

Views: 253

Answers (2)

aspirant_sensei
aspirant_sensei

Reputation: 1673

Turns out SourceTree (Atlassian) offers this functionality, you can click one commit and right-click another and it shows the differences between those two :)

Upvotes: 2

Kenneth
Kenneth

Reputation: 28737

You can use the following to do a diff between two commits:

git diff <sha_commit_1>..<sha_commit_2>

You can also use difftool to launch the default difftool:

git difftool <sha_commit_1>..<sha_commit_2>

This will open the default difftool.

Here's the documentation for the command: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-difftool You can configure the difftool in the git options. Look in the reference for this at https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config for anything starting with diff

Upvotes: 3

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