Bug 307735

Summary: Allow to compare multiple files from the command line
Product: [Applications] kompare Reporter: Corentin Chary <corentin.chary>
Component: generalAssignee: Kompare developers <kompare-devel>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
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OS: Linux   
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Description Corentin Chary 2012-10-02 15:51:23 UTC 
tkdiff supports this syntax when used from commnadline:
tkdiff : a1 b1 : a2 b2 : a3 b3

This is used by perfoce for example. It would be very cool if kompare could support this syntax too. Basically it makes a diff of a1/b1 + a2/b2 + a3/b3 and displays everything in the same window (same as when you make a diff of a directory).

 

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Kevin Kofler 2012-10-02 15:58:46 UTC 
Kompare just doesn't support 3-way diffing. The 3_way_kompare development branch was supposed to add that, but AFAIK this was never implemented even on that branch.

Try KDiff3.
Comment 2 Corentin Chary 2012-10-02 16:05:37 UTC 
Hum the example was misleading, it's not related to 3-way diffing.

New example:
tkdiff : a/foo b/foo : a/bar/foo b/bar/foo : /dev/null b/new

Will display output off
diff a/foo b/foo
diff a/bar/foo b/bar/foo
diff /dev/null b/null