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[–] 4 points 3 months ago

Thanks!

If anyone wants to make git diff use it:

$ git config --global diff.external difft
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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Neat, but I don't like how it highlight the entire like if I change just one character on that line.

    Maybe there's a setting I'm missing, but I really like diff-so-fancy for legibility of changed lines.

    For example if I've got like these changes:

    ***
    a	2026-06-01 14:36:20.699016620 -0400
    +++ b	2026-06-01 14:36:21.842027381 -0400
    @@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
     foo
     bar
    -baz
    +bazz
     
     foo
    -bar
     baz
     
    -foo
    +bar
     bar
     baz
    

    difft shows me:

    size by side diff with entire lines highlighted in red or green

    but diff-so-fancy shows me:

    unified diff with word highlighting

    Imho it's easier to read the pertinent info in the latter, where you've got that attractive word diffing on changed lines.

    I do like the conditional side-by-side and unified diffing, though. That's huge.

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