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gh-f
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gh-f adds diff per filetype and other small improvements
gh-f is a GitHub CLI extension that I wrote that does all-things-fzf for git. From time to time I add new small features or quality of life adjustments :).
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fzf is so powerful when you use it well ! code/files/tags/git history
If you are into github CLI extensions, check out the ultimate fzf git extension: gh-f (unrelated to neovim, but shamelessy I am the author).
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Git workflow
I deal with most of my git workflow from terminal simply because I find git to be easiest to use from the command line, where each command is verbose enough for you to understand what you are doing, and so is its output. Lately, with the introduction of the gh CLI things have gotten even easier, and all the workflow of branches, PRs, releases, runs and so forth is easily handled via command line as well: I wrote gh-f, an extension that integrates gh with fzf and you're good to go at the speed of light.
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gh-f stable release 1.0.0
I have worked on gh-f for about one year and I have now reached the point where I consider it to be stable and robust enough to award it a full 1.0.0 release.
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A Better Git Diff with Delta
You may want to check out gh-f, where most of the functions/alias shown in the videos are packaged as gh CLI extension.
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CLI to Search, Preview, & Check Out a GitHub PR
Nice, wasn't aware of that. Enjoying looking at the code underneath https://github.com/gennaro-tedesco/gh-f/blob/master/gh-f
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Is there a TUI version of Github?
gh cli with some gh extensions, like gh-f, gh-s, and gh-i, can get you most of the way there
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If you could chose only one, would you choose "vim-fugitive" or "lazygit", and why?
If you are interesting in cherrypicking (and much more) you may want to have a look at gh-f, a GitHub CLI extension that works with fzf (in particular look at gh f -k)
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gh-f: now grep through revision history!
Another feature added to gh-f: grep regex pattern through revision history. What about that piece of code you deleted, and now you want to quickly check the old revision file to copy and paste? Say no more: prompt for regex pattern, choose the file name, browse the revision history with preview and show the old file containing the piece of code you are after!
difftastic
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Linus Torvalds adds arbitrary tabs to kernel code
i want a diff tool that shows me exactly which tokens have changed, and which haven't, regardless of how they are laid out.
These already exist: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic
when we get that, then we should get even less merge conflicts.
Counterintuitively, that is not the case. AST-merge is a much, much, much, much, much harder problem than AST-diff.
https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic?tab=readme-ov-file#can...
The fact that diffs can be used to drive a 3-way merge is in fact an accidental property that arises due to the sheer crudeness of the diff format. As soon as you start using more-sophisticated diff formats, solutions to "the diff problem" no longer lead directly to solutions to "the merge problem".
- FLaNK AI Weekly 25 March 2025
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Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax
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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- Difftastic: A structural diff tool that understands syntax
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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
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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.
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Pijul: Version-Control Post-Git • Goto 2023
Shameless plug: I've written difftastic[1], a tool that builds ASTs and then does a structural diff of them. You can use it with git too.
It's an incredibly hard problem though, both from a computational complexity point of view, and trying to build a comprehensible UI once you've done the structural AST diff.
[1]: https://github.com/wilfred/difftastic
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Always leave a trailing comma in Python lists, dicts, tuples
There is a diff tool called difftastic: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic
The idea is that it does not show diff based on text change, but on syntastic meaning. For that, it uses tree-sitter.
I think it still shows the trailing comma in the situation as shown in the article, but it's quite different experience than the standard text based diff.
What are some alternatives?
gh-i - 🔎 search your github issues interactively
delta - A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output
gh-s - 🔎 search github repositories interactively
diffsitter - A tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs
gh-dash - A beautiful CLI dashboard for GitHub 🚀
neogit - An interactive and powerful Git interface for Neovim, inspired by Magit
github-tui - TUI client for GitHub
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code
fzf-preview.vim - The plugin that powerfully integrates fzf and (Neo)vim. It is also possible to integrate with coc.nvim.
gumtree - An awesome code differencing tool
gh-contribs - GitHub Contribution Graph CLI
tree-sitter-cpp - C++ grammar for tree-sitter