KBkbd·Dec 14, 2021
Don't miss https://github.com/dandavison/delta. I use gui diff tools much less nowadays because I can get such great diffs in the terminal.
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A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, rg --json, and blame output
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What it is
A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, rg --json, and blame output
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What people are saying
Delta is a pager that does Syntax highliting, better diff highliting and improved outputs of existing git commands. Highly recommended. https://github.com/dandavison/delta
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 22 | 3 | 19 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 10 | 1 | 9 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 1 | 8 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 2 | 7 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 14 | 3 | 11 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 0 | 9 |
What Hacker News says
10 sourcesDelta: A syntax-highlighting pager for Git, diff, and grep output
2 points · Open discussionI just recently learned that there’s a --gui option for git difftool, which is nice because I use Kaleidoscope for heavy diffs (and merges too with git mergetool) but recently picked up delta [0] for quicker diffing in the terminal. Now I can have both easily.
[0]: https://github.com/dandavison/delta
In Code Review from the Command LineI highly suggest delta[1] for viewing diffs on the command line. It pretty much replicates GitHub's diff rendering, and is quite configurable.
[1]: https://github.com/dandavison/delta
In New in Git: switch and restoreThanks, this is good advice. There are some super featureful diff tools out there. For example, https://github.com/dandavison/delta does a line-based diff but it also syntax highlights its output.
I'm hoping that defining syntax in a separate TOML file will let end users extend difftastic for their own languages/config files. I want to keep difftastic small and manageable.
In Difftastic: Syntax-aware structured diff toolSee also delta for diffing (and as a drop-in replacement for git diff) and exa for ls.
https://github.com/dandavison/delta
https://github.com/ogham/exa
In Ripgrep 13.0I've been using delta: https://github.com/dandavison/delta
It can be easily set up...
In Show HN: GitHub style split diffs in your terminalYes! This is my number one thing as well. Let me dig up the tickets...
Edit: https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/493#issuecomment-...
In Show HN: GitHub style split diffs in your terminalI already use delta for this: https://github.com/dandavison/delta
I thought delta was fairly well-known by now so I was surprised to see this project not mention it (the readme already has a section for that). I wonder what they've chosen to do differently, besides write it in Node.js.
In Show HN: GitHub style split diffs in your terminalIt's neat that you built what you needed in a few lines of code. I must say, I don't quite like the output of Graphtage, I like your's a little bit more, but without a context it's not easy to see how podIP is nested.
Usecases might be a little bit different, but please allow me to share my solution.
The problem with diffing JSON and yaml is, that these formats aren't line based and hashes don't need to be ordered. But there is gron to turn json into a greppable line-based format [1]. Then you can sort. The sorted output is possible to diff now and then you can color the diff output with delta or a similar tool [2].
diff -u <(kubectl get pod pod1 -o json | gron | sort) <(kubectl get pod pod2 -o json | gron | sort) | delta --light --word-diff-regex="\W+"
This output provides a lot of context for me to see and understand the difference
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[1] gron https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
[2] delta https://github.com/dandavison/delta