What is the best difftool for Git repos like OS X's Opendiff?

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Thank you for your answers! – Masi Aug 27 '09 at 0:14
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If you're after a graphical diff command, you should give Meld a go. It's a visual diff and merge tool. I think it is present by default on Ubuntu systems

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One downside of Meld - seems like it can only diff existing files, you can't simply copy/paste content into two editor windows to diff them spontaneously – matt b Mar 29 '11 at 17:59
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Diffuse works well.

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I use kdiff3. It is one of the best tools available for comparison or merging two or three text input files or directories.

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If your looking for command line diff would work wouldn't it? For graphical and not free I like Beyond Compare

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Just tried Meld. It wasn't installed by default but it is available from the repo. sudo apt-get install meld – Gren Aug 13 '09 at 18:39
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Besides the obvious 'git diff' gnu emacs has a mode for diff (obviously :-), called ediff. And there is a relatively standard graphical interface for git, called gitk. Below is a screenshot of ediff.

link to the screenshot of ediff mode

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