diff-so-fancy   

diff-so-fancy builds on the good-lookin' output ofgit contrib'sdiff-highlight to upgrade your diffs' appearances.

• Output will not be in standard patch format, but will be readable.
• No pesky + or - at line-start, making for easier copy-paste.

Screenshot

git diff vs git diff --color | diff-so-fancy

Usage

You can do one-off fanciness:

git diff --color | diff-so-fancy

But, you'll probably want to fancify all your diffs. Run this so git diff (and git show ) will use it:

git config --global pager.diff "diff-so-fancy | less --tabs=1,5 -RFX"  git config --global pager.show "diff-so-fancy | less --tabs=1,5 -RFX"

However, if you'd prefer to do the fanciness on-demand with git dsf , drop an alias in your ~/.gitconfig :

dsf = "!git diff --color $@ | diff-so-fancy"

Install

For convenience, the recommended installation is via NPM. If you'd prefer, you may choose to do amanual installationinstead.

npm install -g diff-so-fancy

This will install and link the diff-so-fancy and diff-highlight scripts.

On Mac, you should use Homebrew:

brew install diff-so-fancy

This will take care of the gnu-sed dependency you would otherwise need to install before using npm or manual installation, and installs both scripts as above.

Improved colors for the highlighted bits

diff-highlight has default colors that are arguably a little nasty. They'll work fine, but you can try some fancier colors:

git config --global color.diff-highlight.oldNormal "red bold"  git config --global color.diff-highlight.oldHighlight "red bold 52"  git config --global color.diff-highlight.newNormal "green bold"  git config --global color.diff-highlight.newHighlight "green bold 22"

You may also want to configuregeneral diff colors.

Manual install

If you want, you can choose to install manually:

1. Grab the two scripts ( diff-highlight and diff-so-fancy ) via either downloading or cloning the repo.
2. If you download diff-highlight from the official git repo, give it a chmod +x .
3. Place them in a location that is in your PATH directly or with symlinks.
4. Set up the git pager.diff and pager.show configs, as described above.

Note: The diff-highlight dependency is an official git-contrib script , duplicated here for convenience. If you prefer less fancy in your diff, you also use diff-highlight on it's own .

Opting-out

Sometimes you will want to bypass diff-so-fancy. Use --no-pager for that:

git --no-pager diff

History

diff-so-fancy started as a commit in paulirish's dotfiles , which grew into astandalone script. Later,@stevemao brought it into itsown repo (here), and gave it the room to mature. It's quickly grown into a widely collaborative project .

Contributing

Pull requests quite welcome, along with any feedback or ideas.

Hacking

# fork and clone the diff-so-fancy repo.  git clone https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy/ && cd diff-so-fancy    # test a saved diff against your local version  cat test/fixtures/ls-function.diff  | ./diff-so-fancy    # setup symlinks to use local copy  npm link  cd ~/projects/catfabulator && git diff

Running tests

You'll need to installbats, the Bash automated testing system. It's also available as brew install bats

git submodule update --init  # pull in the assertion library, bats-assert    # Run the test suite once:  bats test    # Run it on every change with `entr`  brew install entr  ls --color=never diff-so-fancy test/*.bats | entr bats test

License

MIT