[Feature request] Compare externally the directories of 2 arbitrary commits

[seraphire]

I found that Fork supports comparing the current commit to the local changes via the right click menu:

I would like to request an extension to this feature to allow comparing 2 arbitrary commits. This could be comparing 2 commits in the list of commits or it could be comparing two different branches in the branch list.

Git-Extensions already supports the ability to compare the whole contents of the diff. For example:

"C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe" difftool --gui --find-renames --find-copies --no-prompt --dir-diff "e6a713628258d6652fb552e3c0ad2d52babdb3e6" "0db4f0910aed0aac5376c9f155b041d9421e79cf"

In my case, this brings up beyond compare and shows me all the files that are different between these two commits.

The behavior to compare two commits is on the context menu for the commit list in Git-Extensions, seen here:

I have to switch back to git extensions for this feature. Thank you.

[DanPristupov]

Select any two commits (or branches) to compare them.

[seraphire]

Exactly! Is it already in there and I'm just not seeing it?

Okay, I think I need to elaborate. I see if I select 2 commits, it shows in the bottom of the screen. I would like to be able to open this comparison externally.

[DanPristupov]

You can right click on any file and open it in an external diff tool.

If you want to open external diff for multiple files, then this is a duplicate #28, #113

[seraphire]

This would indeed be a duplicate of #28, but not a duplicate of #113. #113 appears to be a request to run the comparison against multiple files, not triggering git's --dir-diff.

For what it's worth, I did search the open issue list and I saw references to #113, but not #28.