How can I use SourceTree from the command line to browse the differences between two commits

[Alan Laird]

Hi,

I would like to do something like this:

open -a SourceTree puppetlabs-apache 8340107...97b5594ffd3b7fec169f807d3dee07cb094982a5

Thanks!

Alan

[Seth]

If you want to use the command line, you should just use the git client. SourceTree is just a UI wrapper to a git command line client anyway.

git diff 8340107 97b5594ffd3b7fec169f807d3dee07cb094982a5

https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-diff.html

[HocoH]

" SourceTree is just a UI wrapper to a git command line client anyway" : yep you made my day

[Rebecca Keller]

Disagree big time.  Contrast gitextensions which provides a number of command-line entry points to it's gui.  I can bring up it's merge tool, invoke graphical blame, log of a specific file, etc, all from command line.  ditto TortoiseGit.

I'm overwhelmingly primarily a commandline dev but I don't want to view a blame via commandline, but it's usually easier for me to specify a path on the commandline

looks like sourcetree.exe /? provides some help, and there's a few commands status, log, filelog, commit, but it's pretty bare compared to gitextensions or tortoise

[Alan Laird]

Hi Seth,

I don't understand your question. I'm trying to determine if I can invoke sourcetree from the command line and browse the changes between two commits. I do this currently with git on the command line but it's really tedious when you have an active project with a lot of committers.

A good example of this is when you are browsing down commits and you see a file diff and you would like to step sideways through changes on that file with log display.

Alan

[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

GitX has a feature like this: you can do

gitx --diff <arguments to git diff>

and see the diff nicely formatted. SourceTree should have a similar command.

[Seth]

As far as I know, SourceTree is exclusively GUI. The only commands it provides are alternate ways to launch the GUI.

[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

I should have been clearer. The GitX command above opens the diff *in the GUI*, and I would expect any similar SourceTree command to so likewise.

[Alan Laird]

I'd like be able to browse an active project between releases to see changes and the commit logs for each change. 'git diff branch..branch' is very file oriented. I will do a 'git diff --name-status branch1..branch1' sometimes.

I do this as well...

git config --global alias.lg "log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit"

git lg -p branch1..branch2 and it's pretty good looking but it's not very usable on large numbers of changes.

[Seth]

So what differences would you expect in a SourceTree diff?