ydiff

About

View incremental, colored diff in unified format or in side by side mode with auto pager. Requires python (>= 2.5.0) and less.

Installation

Save src/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.

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

Usage

Just give it a diff (patch) file or pipe a diff to it. Use option -s for side-by-side view, and option -w N to set a text width other than default 80. See examples below

View a diff (patch) file:

cdiff foo.patch             # view incremental, colored udiff
cdiff foo.patch -s          # view in side by side mode
cdiff foo.patch -s -w 90    # use text width 90 other than default 80

Read diff from svn, git, or hg:

cdiff
cdiff -s
cdiff -s -w 90

Read diffs in git logs:

git log -p -2 | cdiff -s
git show <commit> | cdiff -s

Redirect output to another patch file is safe:

svn diff | cdiff -s > my.patch

Known issue

• Only support unified format for input diff
• Side by side mode has alignment problem for wide chars