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| 67 | 12 | |
| 19,356 | 2,543 | |
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| 9.9 | 7.3 | |
| 6 days ago | 3 months ago | |
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| MIT License | MIT License |
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difftastic
- FLaNK AI Weekly 25 March 2025
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Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax
https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/issues/560 help wanted :)
Semantic Diff is probably the closest for now, although I don't think it uses tree-sitter.
Yes there is an `—-override` option you can use to specify the language in which a file should be parsed.
https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/blob/master/CHANGELOG....
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So You Think You Know Git – Git Tips and Tricks by Scott Chacon
Use the fantastic difftastic instead of git's diff. https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/
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SemanticDiff now supports Rust
difftastic provides similar capabilities in a free tool based on treesitter
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My programming language aware diff for VS Code and GitHub now supports Rust
difftastic? https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic
Looks very similar to the treesitter based difftastic, which seems to support more languages and a less problematic business model.
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Prettier $20k Bounty was Claimed
If you're looking for a VS Code extension or a GitHub app, check out https://semanticdiff.com/. I'm a co-founder of this project.
If you prefer a CLI tool, check out https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic. It supports more languages, but doesn't recognize when code has been replaced by an equivalent version ("invariances"). So it will show some changes (e.g. replacing a character in a string with an escape sequence) even though they are technically equivalent.
git-split-diffs
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Difftastic: A syntactic diff tool
This with the UI from https://github.com/banga/git-split-diffs would make the perfect CLI diff tool!
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Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
I wrote https://github.com/banga/git-split-diffs mainly to scratch an itch about not having side by side git diffs in the terminal, then ended up adding more fancy features like syntax highlighting and it got somewhat popular.
- GitHub style split diffs in your terminal
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Show HN: GitHub style split diffs with syntax highlighting in your terminal
I actually tried to automate the screenshots for this project's readme using GitHub actions, but struggled to get it to produce the same quality screenshots as my local machine. This is the script I use for now, which has to be invoked manually: https://github.com/banga/git-split-diffs/blob/main/scripts/g...
The slowest operation is syntax highlighting: https://github.com/banga/git-split-diffs#performance. I have a PR out to improve that somewhat.
Good point about the themes, I'll add one. I'm hoping to make it easy to customize individual theme colors so you could unset the background colors, for example
Yes this is the default behavior for git-split-diffs: https://github.com/banga/git-split-diffs#narrow-terminals
What are some alternatives?
delta - A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output
diffsitter - A tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs
neogit - An interactive and powerful Git interface for Neovim, inspired by Magit
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code
vim-gitgutter - A Vim plugin which shows git diff markers in the sign column and stages/previews/undoes hunks and partial hunks.
gumtree - An awesome code differencing tool
tree-sitter-cpp - C++ grammar for tree-sitter
emacs-diff-ansi
diff-so-fancy - Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… The best-lookin' diffs. :tada:
locust - "git diff" over abstract syntax trees
tree-sitter - An incremental parsing system for programming tools