ydiff/README.rst

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 *Git/Mercurial/Svn*
workspace, given patch or two files, or from stdin, with **side by side** and
**auto pager** support.  Requires python (>= 2.5.0) and ``less``.

.. image:: http://ymattw.github.com/cdiff/img/default.png
   :alt: default
   :align: center

.. image:: http://ymattw.github.com/cdiff/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.

.. code:: sh
 
    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:: sh

    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``.

.. code:: sh

    curl -ksS https://raw.github.com/ymattw/cdiff/master/cdiff.py > ~/bin/cdiff
    chmod +x ~/bin/cdiff

Usage
-----

Show usage:

.. code:: sh

    cdiff -h

Read diff from local modification in a *Git/Mercurial/Svn* workspace:

.. code:: sh

    cd proj-workspace
    cdiff                       # view colored incremental udiff
    cdiff -s                    # view side by side
    cdiff -s -w 90              # use text width 90 other than default 80

Read the log (e.g. ``git log -p``) in a *Git/Mercurial/Svn* workspace:

.. code:: sh

    cd proj-workspace
    cdiff -l
    cdiff -ls                   # equivalent to ``cdiff -l -s``
    cdiff -ls -w90

Pipe in a diff:

.. code:: sh

    git log -p -2 | cdiff -s
    git show 15bfa5 | cdiff -s
    svn diff -r PREV | cdiff -s

View a diff (patch) file:

.. code:: sh

    cdiff foo.patch
    cdiff foo.patch -s
    cdiff foo.patch -s -w 90

View diff between two files (wrapper of ``diff``):

.. code:: sh

    cdiff foo foo.new           # equivalent to diff -u foo foo.new | cdiff
    cdiff foo foo.new -s

Redirect output to another patch file is safe:

.. code:: sh

    svn diff -r PREV | cdiff -s > my.patch

Notes
-----

- Works with python >= 2.5.0 (subprocess.Popen seems not working with PIPE in
  2.4.3, maybe you can fix it)
- Only takes unified diff for input
- Side by side mode has alignment problem for wide chars
- Pull requests are very welcome (please run ``make test`` to verify)

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
`_.