I'm trying to debug an error I'm encountering in the latest version of the Custom Formatters module and I'm encountering a common problem I have in debugging. There's no easy way to do a project-wide diff of project from release to release. I'd like to easily diff https://www.drupal.org/project/custom_formatters 7.x-2.4 with 7.x-2.3. I can use software locally to do that, but github has spoiled me I guess. Am I missing a hidden function of drupal.org that shows diffs between releases?
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You can clone down the project via
git clone --branch 7.x-2.x http://git.drupal.org/project/custom_formatters.git
When in the directory do a git diff 7.x-2.4..7.x-2.3 and review the output.
If you don't want to scroll through your terminal, try git diff 7.x-2.4..7.x-2.3 > version-change.diff and pop the output into a diff viewer.
I wish cgit had this built it, but the diff viewer in it only supports per commit (as far as I know)
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Thanks. I didn't think it'd be quite that easy to do in Git. I still think it'd be nice to see diffs on drupal.org/cgit.drupalcode.org, but this is a solid solution. I found more
git difftips on tags on this other SO post for anyone else who's interested: stackoverflow.com/a/3211829/721065– cdmoCommented Jul 20, 2015 at 1:59