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> delta I don’t understand what it does. Is it like an alternative diff or is it a patching utility based on a specifically formatted file?
by ornornor 5y ago
> delta
I don’t understand what it does. Is it like an alternative diff or is it a patching utility based on a specifically formatted file?
- OJFord 5y agoAs far as git's concerned it's a pager - like `less` for example - that pages through `git diff` (for example) output. It formats that output, and then might typically be chained into `less` for actual paging. [I co-maintain, just issue triage really, a similar alternative called `diff-so-fancy`.]
- ornornor 5y agoThanks
- bilalq 5y agoDiff so fancy is great too! I go back and forth between it and delta at times by leaving delta as the default diff tool and adding a git alias for the following: dsf = "!f() { [ -z \"$GIT_PREFIX\" ] || cd \"$GIT_PREFIX\" && git diff --color \"$@\" | diff-so-fancy | less --tabs=4 -RFXS; }; f"