5 ms·

I was looking for a good TUI tool for diffs recently, but I'm not sure yet if what I want exists already (and I don't think this tool does it (yet?)). I've been

by llbbdd 8mo ago

I was looking for a good TUI tool for diffs recently, but I'm not sure yet if what I want exists already (and I don't think this tool does it (yet?)). I've been moving my workflow out of VSCode as I'm using TUI-driven coding agents more often lately but one thing I miss from my VSCode/GitHub workflow is the ability to provide a comment on lines or ranges in a diff to provide targeted feedback to the agent. Most diff tools seem to be (rightfully) focused on cleanly visualizing changes and not necessarily iterating on the change. I admit I haven't looked super hard yet, I settled on configuring git to use delta [0] for now and I'm happy with it, but I'm curious if anyone has a workflow for reviewing/iterating on diffs in the terminal that they'd be willing to share. Also open to being told that I'm lightyears behind and that there's a better mental model for this. [0] https://github.com/dandavison/delta/ https://github.com/dandavison/delta/

kodomomo 8mo ago
Octo [0] for nvim lets you submit reviews, add comments on ranges, reply to threads, etc. This in conjunction with gh-dash [1] to launch a review can get you a pretty nice TUI review workflow. [0] https://github.com/pwntester/octo.nvim https://github.com/pwntester/octo.nvim [1] https://github.com/dlvhdr/gh-dash https://github.com/dlvhdr/gh-dash *Edit: I see you meant providing feedback to an agent, not a PR. Well that's what I get for reading too fast.
- llbbdd 8mo ago
  No problem, I appreciate another reason to look at Neovim; I do sometimes have a need to interact with GH's actual PR flow and once I've moved the rest of my workflow out of VSCode, Neovim looks like the best option for the last mile of actually writing and editing code. I just have to commit the time to set it up with everything I probably take for granted in VSCode's editor.
  - Imustaskforhelp 8mo ago
    Micro editor is a great choice as well imo but I don't think that micro has the thriving plugin ecosystem as compared to neovim but it is possible to make plugins for micro editor as well https://github.com/micro-editor/plugin-channel https://github.com/micro-editor/plugin-channel Link to Micro editor: https://micro-editor.github.io/ https://micro-editor.github.io/
mckn1ght 8mo ago
I use delta for quick diffs in a shell (along with the -U0 option on git-diff), but in my claude workflow, i have a 3 pane setup in tmux: :| where the right side is a claude session, the top left is emacs opened to magit, and the bottom left is a shell. Magit makes navigating around a diff pretty easy (as well as all the other git operations), and I can dive into anything and hand edit as well.
jfyne 8mo ago
Not TUI based but I made something called meatcheck. The idea being that the LLM requests a review from the human, you can leave inline comments like a PR review. Once you submit it outputs to stdout and the agent reads your comments and actions them. https://github.com/jfyne/meatcheck https://github.com/jfyne/meatcheck
- llbbdd 8mo ago
  Thank you! At a glance this is very close to what I had in mind, especially with the straightforward output format, I'll give this a try.
coryrc 8mo ago
magit
flamestro 8mo ago
I was also searching for some time, but most of them did not have enough context for my workflow tbh. So thats why I decided to make deff. Another good one I liked is vimdiff
thamer 8mo ago
I had tried `delta` a few years ago but eventually went with `diff-so-fancy`[1] The two are kind of similar if I remember correctly, and both offer a lot of config options to change the style and more. I mostly use it for diffs involving long lines since it highlights changes within a line, which makes it easier to spot such edits. I have an alias set in `~/.gitconfig` to pipe the output of `git diff` (with options) to `diff-so-fancy` with `git diffs`: diffs = "!f() { git diff $@ | diff-so-fancy; }; f" [1] https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy
- petepete 8mo ago
  You can do this with diff-highlight, which comes packaged with git. No extra packages needed.
agavra 8mo ago
Checkout https://github.com/agavra/tuicr https://github.com/agavra/tuicr - it's built exactly for this purpose (reviewing code in your terminal and then adding comments and exporting it to an agent to fix).
- eddyg 8mo ago
  This is really nice! I like the ability to add comments to "send it back" for another pass.
ushironoko 8mo ago
[dead]

by llbbdd 8mo ago

kodomomo 8mo ago

Octo [0] for nvim lets you submit reviews, add comments on ranges, reply to threads, etc. This in conjunction with gh-dash [1] to launch a review can get you a pretty nice TUI review workflow. [0] https://github.com/pwntester/octo.nvim https://github.com/pwntester/octo.nvim [1] https://github.com/dlvhdr/gh-dash https://github.com/dlvhdr/gh-dash *Edit: I see you meant providing feedback to an agent, not a PR. Well that's what I get for reading too fast.

llbbdd 8mo ago
No problem, I appreciate another reason to look at Neovim; I do sometimes have a need to interact with GH's actual PR flow and once I've moved the rest of my workflow out of VSCode, Neovim looks like the best option for the last mile of actually writing and editing code. I just have to commit the time to set it up with everything I probably take for granted in VSCode's editor.
- Imustaskforhelp 8mo ago
  Micro editor is a great choice as well imo but I don't think that micro has the thriving plugin ecosystem as compared to neovim but it is possible to make plugins for micro editor as well https://github.com/micro-editor/plugin-channel https://github.com/micro-editor/plugin-channel Link to Micro editor: https://micro-editor.github.io/ https://micro-editor.github.io/

mckn1ght 8mo ago

I use delta for quick diffs in a shell (along with the -U0 option on git-diff), but in my claude workflow, i have a 3 pane setup in tmux: :| where the right side is a claude session, the top left is emacs opened to magit, and the bottom left is a shell. Magit makes navigating around a diff pretty easy (as well as all the other git operations), and I can dive into anything and hand edit as well.

jfyne 8mo ago

Not TUI based but I made something called meatcheck. The idea being that the LLM requests a review from the human, you can leave inline comments like a PR review. Once you submit it outputs to stdout and the agent reads your comments and actions them. https://github.com/jfyne/meatcheck https://github.com/jfyne/meatcheck

llbbdd 8mo ago
Thank you! At a glance this is very close to what I had in mind, especially with the straightforward output format, I'll give this a try.

coryrc 8mo ago

magit

flamestro 8mo ago

I was also searching for some time, but most of them did not have enough context for my workflow tbh. So thats why I decided to make deff. Another good one I liked is vimdiff

thamer 8mo ago

I had tried `delta` a few years ago but eventually went with `diff-so-fancy`[1] The two are kind of similar if I remember correctly, and both offer a lot of config options to change the style and more. I mostly use it for diffs involving long lines since it highlights changes within a line, which makes it easier to spot such edits. I have an alias set in `~/.gitconfig` to pipe the output of `git diff` (with options) to `diff-so-fancy` with `git diffs`: diffs = "!f() { git diff $@ | diff-so-fancy; }; f" [1] https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy

petepete 8mo ago
You can do this with diff-highlight, which comes packaged with git. No extra packages needed.

agavra 8mo ago

Checkout https://github.com/agavra/tuicr https://github.com/agavra/tuicr - it's built exactly for this purpose (reviewing code in your terminal and then adding comments and exporting it to an agent to fix).

eddyg 8mo ago
This is really nice! I like the ability to add comments to "send it back" for another pass.

ushironoko 8mo ago

[dead]