Show HN: GitHub style split diffs with syntax highlighting in your terminal

• git-split-diffs

  12 2,551 7.3 TypeScript

  Syntax highlighted side-by-side diffs 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...

• delta

  88 20,765 8.1 Rust

  A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output

I already use delta for this: https://github.com/dandavison/delta

I thought delta was fairly well-known by now so I was surprised to see this project not at least mention it (the readme already has a section for that). I wonder what they've chosen to do differently, besides write it in Node.js.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• diff-so-fancy

  22 17,103 7.1 Perl

  Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… The best-lookin' diffs. :tada:

  

Related but for single pane diffs: https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy

• base16

  25 467 0.0

  Not a theme, but a framework

• Git

  287 50,207 10.0 C

  Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.

  

You can't configure diff-highlight to do that. It 'will find the common prefix and suffix of two lines, and consider everything in the middle to be "different".' [1]

To highlight only the quotes as changing, you need something else. On (Neo)Vim, for example, vim-gitgutter does this [2] (I'm the author).

[1] https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/diff-highligh...

• vim-gitgutter

  32 8,288 7.0 Vim Script

  A Vim plugin which shows git diff markers in the sign column and stages/previews/undoes hunks and partial hunks.

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