https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/merge_requests/570#note_7594
Nope.. I was debugging something else
Something I do that helps prevent accidental changes from being included in commits is to *always* do a diff (or difftool or equivalent) before a commit (and before I write the commit message). That helps me to catch all the accidental/incidental changes and write better commit messages.
Re: DDMsgReader fix: Fix: When listing messages in lightbar mode in revers
By: Digital Man to Eric Oulashin on Sun Sep 07 2025 05:29 pm
Something I do that helps prevent accidental changes from being included in commits is to *always* do a diff (or difftool or equivalent) before a commit (and before I write the commit message). That helps me to catch all the accidental/incidental changes and write better commit messages.
Generally I do at work, though for my Synchronet stuff, I haven't been in the habit of doing that for some reason, but I should. I use Visual Studio (in Windows) a lot at work, and its Git integration shows all the files you've changed in the repo and lets you diff them, which is convenient; I'm wondering if there's something that does similar for Linux.
I usually will install perforce perge (p4merge, it's free) as a git diff viewer in a *nix environment, so running "git difftool" will use that instead of the normal text/diff view, if you prefer a GUI diff.
If you want a full git GUI (that does more than just diff viewing), there are a lot of options: gitk, gitkraken, Github Desktop, etc. And of course, there's Visual Studio Code (vscode) which runs in Linux and has plenty of git integration.
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