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Sanghyun Lee
Sanghyun Lee

Reputation: 23062

Github style split diffs on a command-line

Github introduced split diffs in September. Is there any way to see that on a command-line?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 3538

Answers (2)

Sanghyun Lee
Sanghyun Lee

Reputation: 23062

An opensource project delta provides the side-by-side view feature.

side-by-side view

Upvotes: 1

poke
poke

Reputation: 388153

A typical command line is usually not wide enough to handle this kind of comparison. Note that most of Git is built for 80 character wide terminals. So you would have about ~35 characters per side; I doubt that’s helpful (I already have problems reading unified diffs on a much wider terminal).

Git however gives you the ability to use diff tools, external programs that can do whatever diff you prefer. For example, you could use something like WinMerge on Windows, which uses a split view by default. There are many other programs for it, for every platform, and usually every diff program can be set up to work with Git.

Upvotes: 2

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