diffsitter
ast-grep
diffsitter | ast-grep | |
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15 | 35 | |
1,531 | 5,950 | |
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8.6 | 9.9 | |
2 days ago | 1 day ago | |
Rust | Rust | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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diffsitter
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AST-grep(sg) is a CLI tool for code structural search, lint, and rewriting
Or https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter. I've tried both and I like them. No preference or notable opinions on them yet!
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Enable new diff option linematch (#14537) · neovim/neovim@04fbb1d
For git diff's I've been using https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter
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Difftastic, the Fantastic Diff: How it works
One more tree-sitter based diffing tool - diffsitter
https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter
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What Comes After Git
Several threads here point to difftastic: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic
I know a lot of people who have a lot of hope for diffsitter (or something like it): https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter
Personally, I think the reason most "good" semantic diff tools are proprietary is that they are huge amounts of effort that are mostly "hacks" and "heuristics" bandaged together in ways that people don't want to let out how the sausage was made.
But I also "general, language agnostic AST-based semantic diff" is a mountain peak we cannot reach (probably ever), and I believe my experiments found an interesting local maxima that people are maybe sleeping on (lexer-based diffs rather than parser-based diffs): https://github.com/WorldMaker/tokdiff
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Fast Kernel Headers: Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux kernel's "Dependency Hell"
https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter there are quiet a few projects such as this one, attempting to solve the issue. :)
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Thinking about programming systems and not just languages and environments
There’s an interesting project in the semantic diff/merge space that I have been keeping an eye out for https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter
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What if Git worked with Programming Languages?
I have never used any of them, but it look like tree-sitter based diff tools are exactly what you are searching for (like difftastic, gumtree or diffsitter).
I believe Unison is the only attempt to do this at a programming language/environment level.
For Git diffs, there is Diffsitter, which uses Tree Sitter to generate semantic diffs of code files: https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter
I have not used it, but it is high on my todo list.
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Difftastic: A syntactic diff tool
Looks great, I'll try it! FYI, there is a very similar project called diffsitter https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter
- diffsitter - a tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs
ast-grep
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An infinite canvas for code exploration
It's unclear what the superpowers would be? Video doesn't show anything I can't do with an IDE or decent code editor, and there I also have refactoring tools, metadata like indicators for usages that can be used for navigating and so on.
Reminds me of UML-like diagrams over relational databases, except that it's generated one piece at a time. In practice I generate diagrams showing cyclomatic complexity much more often, and for code exploration outside the IDE I'd use ast-grep.
https://ast-grep.github.io/
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Migrate to React 19 with ast-grep
This article illustrates the usage of ast-grep, a tool designed to locate and substitute patterns in your codebase, towards easing your migration to React 19.
- AST-grep(sg) AST grep based on Treesitter
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Show HN: GritQL, a Rust CLI for rewriting source code
This looks great, thanks for building and sharing it.
Interested folks may also want to check out ast-grep:
https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep
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How I build a chatbot for my OSS project, for free, without code!
ast-grep is a command-line tool that lets you search and transform code written in many programming languages using abstract syntax trees (ASTs). ASTs are data structures that capture the syntactic and semantic structure of source code. With ast-grep, you can write patterns as if you are writing ordinary code, and it will match all code that has the same syntactical structure. And if you need more power, you can use YAML, a rule system that allows you to write more sophisticated linting rules or code modifications.
- FLaNK Stack Weekly 11 Dec 2023
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AST-grep(sg) is a CLI tool for code structural search, lint, and rewriting
I really like this - it means the tool is available to people with familiarity of any of those four distribution mechanisms.
You can also download pre-built binaries from their releases page: https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep/releases/tag/0.14.2
On top of that, they offer API bindings for it in three different languages:
- Rust (not yet stable): https://docs.rs/ast-grep-core/latest/ast_grep_core/
- JavaScript/TypeScript: https://ast-grep.github.io/guide/api-usage/js-api.html
- Python: https://ast-grep.github.io/guide/api-usage/py-api.html
It's rare to see a tool/library offer this depth of language support out of the box.
What are some alternatives?
difftastic - a structural diff that understands syntax 🟥🟩
ssr.nvim - Treesitter based structural search and replace plugin for Neovim.
semantic-source - Parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code across many languages
helix - A post-modern modal text editor.
nvim-treesitter-context - Show code context
weggli - weggli is a fast and robust semantic search tool for C and C++ codebases. It is designed to help security researchers identify interesting functionality in large codebases.
tree-sitter-json - JSON grammar for tree-sitter
git-repo-sync - Auto synchronization of remote Git repositories. Auto conflict solving. Network fail resilience. Linux & Windows support. And more.
dark - Darklang main repo, including language, backend, and infra
telescope.nvim - Find, Filter, Preview, Pick. All lua, all the time.
git-merge-driver - Example of how to configure a custom git merge driver
telescope-sg - Ast-grep picker for telescop.nvim