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Compare View on Github

GitHub has introduced compare view about half a year ago. It basically is a nice frontend to git diff. You can specify a start and an end point for the diff. This can be commit hashes, tag or branch names:

http://github.com/<USER>/<REPO>/compare/[<START>...]<END>

For example, this is everything that happened between some commit a the current master branch in the Browsemytweets repository. We are using this view for code reviews. Once a feature in a topic branch is done, we sit down together on one computer and go through the diff. The Github view is nicer than the plain-text diff and even includes comments made on github throughout the way … The only thing missing is doing new comments in compare view …