Difftastic, the Fantastic Diff: How it works

• delta

  88 20,617 8.4 Rust

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

Although I do not have much to add, a combination of `difftastic` & `delta` [0] is a very cool combo to make _git_ a little more approachable for newbies like me.

[0]: https://github.com/dandavison/delta

• resolve

  3 37 0.0 C++

  Resolve software differencing and merging (by GrammaTech)

  

Resolve is another tree-sitter based tool that does this:

https://github.com/grammatech/resolve

• InfluxDB

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  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.

  

• difftastic

  1 0 0.0 Rust

  a diff that understands syntax 🟥🟩 (by anchpop)

It’s a bit out of date but my fork adds this functionality https://github.com/anchpop/difftastic

• diff2html

  6 2,691 7.7 TypeScript

  Pretty diff to html javascript library (diff2html)

My favorite diff tool is diff2html - see the diff in your browser as HTML!

https://diff2html.xyz/

Install the CLI, run the command (alias diff='diff2html -s side') - I run this at least every time before committing to quickly see all I've done.

• diffsitter

  15 1,517 8.7 Rust

  A tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs

One more tree-sitter based diffing tool - diffsitter

https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter

• cursh

  1 1 10.0 Rust

  Clipboard content templated shell commands

https://github.com/Tacklebox/cursh

You can use it like `cursh difftastic {{1}} {{2}}` and it will prompt you for each {{#}} to hit enter once you have the thing you want in your clipboard and it passes the content to the command as files

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