diff-so-fancy strives to make your diffs human readable instead of machine readable. This helps improve code quality and helps you spot defects faster. diff-so-fancy is also available from NPM, Nix, brew, and as a package on Arch and Debian Linux. Windows users may need to install MinGW or the Windows subsystem for Linux. By default, the separator for the file header uses Unicode line-drawing characters. If this is causing output errors on your terminal, set this to false to use ASCII characters instead. By default, the separator for the file header spans the full width of the terminal. Use this setting to set the width of the file header manually. Pull requests are quite welcome, and should target the next branch. You can simplify git header chunks to a more human readable format. We are also looking for any feedback or ideas on how to make diff-so-fancy even fancier.

Features

  • Simplify git header chunks to a more human readable format
  • Configure git to use diff-so-fancy for all diff output
  • The default Git colors are not optimal
  • Use -u with diff for unified output, and pipe the output to diff-so-fancy
  • The separator for the file header uses Unicode line-drawing characters
  • The separator for the file header spans the full width of the terminal

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Operating Systems

Linux, Windows

Programming Language

Perl

Related Categories

Perl Source Code Analysis Tool, Perl Code Review Software

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2021-04-12