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.
I've tested this on a recent version of meld and it is now built in. You can use it with meld <directory path> so "meld ." works for the current directory. You can checkout a version git co [version] then git reset [version]^ and then run "meld ." to compare any version with it's previous version.