git-difftool: full file tree compare using meld?

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Published on 2010-03-17T00:07:11Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 0:11 UTC
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Is there an easy way to compare the file tree of an old git commit with the working file tree, in meld?

git-difftool does something very similar, but I don't want it to actually do any diffing; the whole point is that the tool it is calling can provide a better interface for that.

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