difftools, ‘bzr diff --using footool’, and ‘diffuse’

[Aaron Bentley]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Ben Finney wrote:
> I have long enjoyed the ‘difftools’ plugin, specifically because it
> adds a ‘--using footool’ option to ‘bzr diff’, allowing diffs to be
> displayed with any command which supports the ‘diff(1)’ interface.

You know that bzr also provides diff --using, right?  You prefer the
version in difftools?

> I recently installed Diffuse <URL:http://diffuse.sourceforge.net/>
> which has its own support for retrieving Bazaar revisions. But I want
> to use Bazaar for that, and just use ‘diffuse’ for displaying what
> Bazaar tells it to display.
> 
> When I try using ‘bzr diff --using diffuse’, I get error messages from
> ‘diffuse’ like:

If you're using the difftools version, it's quite hard to know.
difftools has built-in support for viewers such as meld and kdiff.
Maybe it does for Diffuse, too.  I haven't heard from Stephen Ward for
some time, though.

> Why would Diffuse not be able to read the directories with the files
> Bazaar is presenting for diff?

Difftools is presenting them, not Bazaar.  I'd suggest asking Stephen or
reading the source, 'cause no one on the team is very familiar with
difftools.

Aaron
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iEYEARECAAYFAknWD+QACgkQ0F+nu1YWqI0nFACfYvEep2Q9klYJ9nGWkuVXZFG9
LzsAnj9wIi6Q0X7O7yc2MlRpZCE36dAo
=4bO4
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----