PApaaloeye·Nov 1, 2026
How is it better or worse compared to https://github.com/dandavison/delta ?
In Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rustdandavison
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dandavison / delta
delta
A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, rg --json, and blame output
58Distinct people
85Mentions
2Explicit recommenders
32.7KGitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, rg --json, and blame output
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Where it is used
No documented product use was verified in the last source check.
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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- wilfred/difftastic · linked in 2 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
This week on Hacker News
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by year85 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2019-09-19 15:12:36 UTC to 2026-11-01 13:39:32 UTC.
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Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
9 sourcesMany diff tools, such as delta (https://github.com/dandavison/delta) and the ones built into VS Code and IDEs by JetBrains, can configured to highlight changes within each line (by word) and ignore changes to whitespace. Those features save me a lot of time when I review diffs that include indentation changes or variable renames.
In LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegateWhat benefits does this have over https://github.com/dandavison/delta ?
In A Textual widget for beautiful diffs in the terminalStill waiting for Delta + Difftastic integration:
https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/535
In Improved Git Diffs with Delta, Fzf and a Little Shell ScriptingFor that in particular, I use delta (<https://github.com/dandavison/delta>) with `side-by-side = true` enabled. I find I use both icdiff and delta side-by-side on a regular basis.
In Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminalI was looking for a good TUI tool for diffs recently, but I'm not sure yet if what I want exists already (and I don't think this tool does it (yet?)). I've been moving my workflow out of VSCode as I'm using TUI-driven coding agents more often lately but one thing I miss from my VSCode/GitHub workflow is the ability to provide a comment on lines or ranges in a diff to provide targeted feedback to the agent. Most diff tools seem to be (rightfully) focused on cleanly visualizing changes and not necessarily iterating on the change.
I admit I haven't looked super hard yet, I settled on configuring git to use delta [0] for now and I'm happy with it, but I'm curious if anyone has a workflow for reviewing/iterating on diffs in the terminal that they'd be willing to share. Also open to being told that I'm lightyears behind and that there's a bett
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er mental model for this.
[0] https://github.com/dandavison/delta/
getting users to adopt a new tool with its own incantations is a tough sell. git supports specifying an external pager so folks can plug in alternatives (such as https://github.com/dandavison/delta) while still using the familiar git frontend
In Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminalLooks neat! Any chance to integrate delta with it?
https://github.com/dandavison/delta
In Show HN: difi – A Git diff TUI with Neovim integration (written in Go)