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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I meant the last one of those. If you have a directory of lose files, you can just open any of them and compare them directly, but if they're all in git, you'll either have to make a copy of your current version before checking out the other one (because it would be overwritten otherwise), or like you said, use multiple worktrees, which is a rather advanced feature (that I honestly didn't even know existed until now).

Either way it's a bunch of extra work and it's only necessary because you chose the wrong tool for the job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Or call libreoffice as diff driver.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I imagine script that outputs pandiff into pdf and opens okular. Yep.