magit-delta
Use delta (https://github.com/dandavison/delta) when viewing diffs in Magit (by dandavison)
emacs-vdiff
Like vimdiff for Emacs (by justbur)
| magit-delta | emacs-vdiff | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 4 | |
| 280 | 208 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 2.9 | |
| 7 months ago | 11 months ago | |
| Emacs Lisp | Emacs Lisp | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
magit-delta
Posts with mentions or reviews of magit-delta.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-26.
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Magit
magit-delta's dev is very responsive, but there's still an outstanding performance issue blocking me from adopting it:
https://github.com/dandavison/magit-delta/issues/9
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Magit diff highlight
magit-delta does this. I tried it a few years ago myself and ran into some issues. About time I try it again :)
- delta for vc-mode?
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Go to next line in magit-delta broken after updating to Emacs 29
For now I disable this package, but I really miss the magit highlighting. I created github issue, but it has no updates since 3 weeks, so maybe community could found the solution?
- Difftastic: syntax-aware intelligent diffs
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An experiment to make diffs easier to read
You might be interested in Delta and the emacs package magit-delta that uses it. It has this feature and several other as well.
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How to configure magit with difftastic?
You might look into https://github.com/dandavison/magit-delta
- magit-delta: Use delta (https://ift.tt/2V2nRBc) when viewing diffs in Magit
- How to override magit's diff view? (for syntax highlighted, side-by-side diff view)
emacs-vdiff
Posts with mentions or reviews of emacs-vdiff.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-30.
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What are the small reasons to try Emacs?
Not a com user but I’ve been happy with vdiff for diff/merge operations.
- Meld for Macs
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How to override magit's diff view? (for syntax highlighted, side-by-side diff view)
You can use ediff in magit by pressing E. Other choice would be https://github.com/justbur/emacs-vdiff. Repo explains how to integrate it to magit.
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On Ediff
I heard vdiff is pretty good too https://github.com/justbur/emacs-vdiff
What are some alternatives?
When comparing magit-delta and emacs-vdiff you can also consider the following projects:
diffview-mode - View diffs side-by-side in Emacs
smart-mode-line - A powerful and beautiful mode-line for Emacs.
difftastic - a structural diff that understands syntax 🟥🟩
god-mode - Minor mode for God-like command entering
git-link - Emacs package to get the GitHub/Bitbucket/GitLab/... URL for a buffer location
emacs-solaire-mode - If only certain buffers could be so grossly incandescent.
gerrit.el - gerrit integration in emacs
emacs-diff-ansi
elpm - A elisp package manager with a cli
magit-todos - Show source files' TODOs (and FIXMEs, etc) in Magit status buffer
meld - Meld for macOS
magit-delta vs diffview-mode
emacs-vdiff vs smart-mode-line
magit-delta vs difftastic
emacs-vdiff vs god-mode
magit-delta vs git-link
emacs-vdiff vs emacs-solaire-mode
magit-delta vs gerrit.el
emacs-vdiff vs diffview-mode
magit-delta vs emacs-diff-ansi
emacs-vdiff vs elpm
magit-delta vs magit-todos
emacs-vdiff vs meld