neogit VS difftastic

Neogit

I would use this feature of lazy.nvim in a plugin that I rarely need. Something neogit for example. I can spend hours coding without using it. In that particular case I think is nice to have the option to load it when I actually call it.

This looks very much like the Noevim plugin I began using about a month ago: neogit[0].

The keybindings were a bit rough, and it took me about an hour of use before I was really comfortable with the overall workflow. Once I was, though, I’ve found it to be much faster than my previous workflow (suspending neovim and using git directly in the shell).

0: https://github.com/NeogitOrg/neogit

Edit: FYI: I made a feature request and got the answer, that it it possible to visually select the files and discard them like this together.

This is what I use for general git interaction and it‘s pretty neat: neogit. Also integrates diffview

For neovim users, there's a work-in-progress clone, neogit: https://github.com/timUntersberger/neogit/

Some of my colleagues use emacs/magit, and after seeing how absolutely lovely the workflow is, I've put in a lot of work over the last few months expanding it. You can check out my fork here: https://github.com/ckolkey/neogit/

One thing I particularly like to tease my emacs' colleagues about is that my magit is faster than theirs thanks to neovim's async capabilities.

You could use neogit (https://github.com/TimUntersberger/neogit) for basic commands however I have found it's easier / more versatile to just use lazygit in either another tmux tmux window or within neovim itself.

The only thing I truly miss from Emacs is [Magit](https://magit.vc/) since I still consider it the best git wrapper available. It is just too good. Unfortunately [Neogit](https://github.com/TimUntersberger/neogit) is not quite there yet although I hope it makes it at some point. I didn't like [Fugitive]https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive), but I ended up finding a good enough workaround by using [Lazygit](https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit) through [Toggleterm](https://github.com/akinsho/toggleterm.nvim).

There is this amazing tool called difftastic which one guy implements for years on end. It's ridiculous how dedicated he is to the tool. I've been using it for years with git and it works like a charm. [1] [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27768861

[2] https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic

Maybe you're already aware of it, but there is difftastic [0], which is a syntax aware diff tool that can also be used with git. Although I haven't tried, I think most IDEs should also be able to use it.

[0] https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/

After switching to difftastic for semantic diff, I have never looked back. (https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic)

How does semanticdiff compare to that? Anyone got experience?

Difftastic: A Structural Diff Tool for Meaningful Code Reviews (3 min) 🔧 https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/

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".

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....

Use the fantastic difftastic instead of git's diff. https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/

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