Colors for your git diffs
.. image:: colordiffs.png
Colordiffs is under development, things are bound to be broken. If you would like to help out, start an issue or submit a pull request :)
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pip install colordiffs
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git diff HEAD^ | colordiffs | less -r
explanation
git diff HEAD^ gets a diff between the current and the previous commitcolordiffs reads a diff from stdinless -r takes the output of colordiffs and uses less to page it, the -r is required to interpret the terminal escape codes::
Python 2.x, 3.x
Pygments
Support more kinds of git diff output. Right not it supports the most common --- +++ diffs, but if the diff is for a new file or deletion of file it breaks.
FAQs
Syntax highlights for your git diffs
We found that colordiffs demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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