Thanks for the article. I recently switched from xxdiff to meld as my git-diff tool. I'm mostly pleased but have been disappointed in how meld labels the files in the title bar and the chooser button above each file's content. No directory information is shown, and one or both files is a cryptically-named temporary, e.g., hVNj6T_foobar, and sometimes collapsed with an ellipsis if too long, even when there's plenty of space. When comparing lots of files between two commits, it's hard to know where I am within the two trees or even what files are being compared. It'd sure be nice if there was a way to show something more informative in the UI. Using --label once or twice on the meld command line helps.
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Thanks for the article. I recently switched from xxdiff to meld as my git-diff tool. I'm mostly pleased but have been disappointed in how meld labels the files in the title bar and the chooser button above each file's content. No directory information is shown, and one or both files is a cryptically-named temporary, e.g., hVNj6T_foobar, and sometimes collapsed with an ellipsis if too long, even when there's plenty of space. When comparing lots of files between two commits, it's hard to know where I am within the two trees or even what files are being compared. It'd sure be nice if there was a way to show something more informative in the UI. Using
--labelonce or twice on the meld command line helps.