vimdiff is pretty fast, and is likely installed on your linux system without you realizing it.
Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal
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Re: Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal
#22we need something like this in lazygit -- which is excellent all around but lacking in visual diffing/merging.
What is most useful though is a 3-panel setup, like JetBrains -- still the best git client I have worked with.
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delta supports split view: https://dandavison.github.io/delta/side-by-side-view.html
Re: Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal
#24I 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…
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.
Re: Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal
#25I 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…
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.
Re: Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal
#26I 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…
magit
Re: Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal
#27I have been using https://github.com/jeffkaufman/icdiff for the longest time to get side by side diffs.
This looks great as well! I personally prefer a bit more context. Thats why I added a bit more of it to deff. It also allows to mark files as reviewed by pressing `r` which is quite handy for my flow.
Re: Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal
#28git difftool --tool=vimdiff
I personally find vimdiff a bit harder to navigate for my usecase. The reason is that I am context unaware of the file often in larger projects and wanted something that allows me to check all lines in a touched file. However, I have to admit vimdiff comes quite close to what I need and is a great tool!
Re: Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal
#29looks pretty good at a glance, though I would like to see three views for handling conflicts. Target on the left, source on the right, and the combined result in the middle.
...I really just like the way the Jetbrains IDEs do it, and I wish there were a TUI version that I could launch automatically from the git cli.
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So I tested this on huge files (checking cargo lock for instance) and it is super fast in the navigation of those. Until now I did not encounter any issue with bigger files (around 4k-6k changes but also only 4k-6k lines).