diffdiffer: patch files analyzer Files

diffdiffer

Diff/patch file highlighter. diff or patch file shows difference in
files in whole lines. Sometimes those lines are very similar, only one
or two words changed. This script compares changed lines by characters
and highlights actual differences in them. It's very helpful in seeing
what actually changed in those long lines :)

To install, unpack archive and place diffdiffer script into directory
in PATH

Usage (file MUST be in unified format, -u diff's flag)

$ diff -u file1 file2 | diffdiffer

$ git diff | diffdiffer

$ cvs diff -u -D '1 year ago' -D '11 month ago' | diffdiffer

Accepts input in system default encoding (usually utf8), conversion
may be needed:

$ diff -u file1 file2 | iconv -f koi8-r | diffdiffer

To install python3 and tkinter on ubuntu, run:

$ sudo aptitude install python3-tk