Cdiff ===== .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/ymattw/cdiff.png?branch=master :target: https://travis-ci.org/ymattw/cdiff :alt: Build status Term based tool to view *colored*, *incremental* diff in a *Git/Mercurial/Svn* workspace or from stdin, with *side by side* and *auto pager* support. Requires python (>= 2.5.0) and ``less``. .. image:: https://raw.github.com/ymattw/cdiff/gh-pages/img/default.png :alt: default :align: center .. image:: https://raw.github.com/ymattw/cdiff/gh-pages/img/side-by-side.png :alt: side by side :align: center :width: 900 px Installation ------------ Install with pip ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cdiff is already listed on `PyPI`_, you can install with ``pip`` if you have the tool. .. _PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cdiff .. code-block:: bash pip install --upgrade cdiff Install with setup.py ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can also run the setup.py from the source if you don't have ``pip``. .. code-block:: bash git clone https://github.com/ymattw/cdiff.git cd cdiff ./setup.py install Download directly ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Just save `cdiff.py`_ to whatever directory which is in your ``$PATH``, for example, ``$HOME/bin`` is in my ``$PATH``, so I save the script there and name as ``cdiff``. .. _`cdiff.py`: https://raw.github.com/ymattw/cdiff/master/cdiff.py .. code-block:: bash curl -ksSL https://raw.github.com/ymattw/cdiff/master/cdiff.py > ~/bin/cdiff chmod +x ~/bin/cdiff Usage ----- Type ``cdiff -h`` to show usage:: $ cdiff -h Usage: cdiff [options] [file|dir ...] View colored, incremental diff in a workspace or from stdin, with side by side and auto pager support Options: --version show program's version number and exit -h, --help show this help message and exit -s, --side-by-side enable side-by-side mode -w N, --width=N set text width for side-by-side mode, 0 for auto detection, default is 80 -l, --log show log with changes from revision control -c M, --color=M colorize mode 'auto' (default), 'always', or 'never' Note: Option parser will stop on first unknown option and pass them down to underneath revision control Read diff from local modification in a *Git/Mercurial/Svn* workspace (output from e.g. ``git diff``, ``svn diff``): .. code-block:: bash cd proj-workspace cdiff # view colored incremental diff cdiff -s # view side by side, use default text width 80 cdiff -s -w 90 # use text width 90 other than default 80 cdiff -s -w 0 # auto set text width based on terminal size cdiff -s file1 dir2 # view modification of given files/dirs only cdiff -s -w90 -- -U10 # pass '-U10' to underneath revision diff tool cdiff -s -w90 -U10 # '--' is optional as it's unknown to cdiff cdiff -s --cached # show git staged diff (git diff --cached) cdiff -s -r1234 # show svn diff to revision 1234 Read log with changes in a *Git/Mercurial/Svn* workspace (output from e.g. ``git log -p``, ``svn log --diff``), note *--diff* option is new in svn 1.7.0: .. code-block:: bash cd proj-workspace cdiff -l # read log along with changes cdiff -ls # equivalent to cdiff -l -s, view side by side cdiff -ls -w90 # set text width 90 as well cdiff -ls file1 dir2 # see log with changes of given files/dirs only If you feel more comfortable with a command such as ``git cdiff`` to trigger the cdiff command, you may symlink the executable to one named ``git-cdiff`` as follows: .. code-block:: bash cdiff_dir=$(dirname $(which cdiff)) ln -s "${cdiff_dir}/cdiff" "${cdiff_dir}/git-cdiff" Pipe in a diff: .. code-block:: bash git log -p -2 | cdiff # view git log with changes of last 2 commits git show 15bfa | cdiff -s # view a given git commit, side by side svn diff -r1234 | cdiff -s # view svn diff comparing to given revision diff -u file1 file2 | cdiff # view diff between two files (note the '-u') diff -ur dir1 dir2 | cdiff # view diff between two dirs # View diff in a GitHub pull request, side by side curl https://github.com/ymattw/cdiff/pull/11.diff | cdiff -s # View a patch file in unified or context format, the latter depends on # command `filterdiff` from package `patchutils` which is available in # major Linux distros and MacPorts. # cdiff -s < foo.patch Redirect output to another patch file is safe: .. code-block:: bash svn diff -r PREV | cdiff -s > my.patch Notes ----- Cdiff has following known issues: - Does not recognize `normal` diff, and depends on ``filterdiff`` (patchutils) to read `context` diff - Side by side mode has alignment problem for wide chars - Terminal might be in a mess on exception (type ``reset`` can fix it) Pull requests are very welcome, please make sure your changes can pass unit tests and regression tests by run ``make test`` (required tool *coverage* can be installed with ``pip install coverage``). Also watch out `travis build`_ after push, make sure it passes as well. .. _`travis build`: https://travis-ci.org/ymattw/cdiff/pull_requests See also -------- I have another tool `coderev`_ which generates side-by-side diff pages for code review from two given files or directories, I found it's not easy to extend to support git so invented `cdiff`. Idea of ansi color markup is also from project `colordiff`_. .. _coderev: https://github.com/ymattw/coderev .. _colordiff: https://github.com/daveewart/colordiff .. vim:set ft=rst et sw=4 sts=4 tw=79: