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awesome-diff-tools

Awesome tools that show differences between files and folders.
https://github.com/mmueller2012/awesome-diff-tools

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  • Source Code

    • Semantic Diffs

      • diffsitter - Terminal utility to generate unified diffs, hides style changes, but doesn't detect moved code.
      • difftastic - Terminal utility to generate side-by-side diffs, hides style changes and supports many languages, but doesn't detect moved code.
      • gumtree - Web/GUI/Text frontend to generate side-by-side diffs, hides style changes and detects moved code.
      • zograscope - Terminal utility to generate side-by-side diffs, hides style changes, mostly focused on C/C++.
      • SemanticDiff - Visual Studio Code extension to generate side-by-side diffs, hides style changes, detects moved code blocks and simple refactorings.
    • Diff Enhancers

      • delta - Pager for (git) diff, adds syntax highlighting, inline and side-by-side view, support for git blame and merge conflicts.
      • diff-so-fancy - Pager for (git) diff, changes colors and highlights inline changes, various options to customize output format.
      • diffr - Pager for git diff, changes colors and highlights inline changes.
      • dunk - Postprocesses the output of git diff to generate side-by-side diffs, supports syntax highlighting and highlights inline changes.
      • git-split-diffs - Pager for (git) diff, displays changes like GitHub split diffs (side-by-side diffs) with syntax highlighting.
      • icdiff - Standalone application for side-by-side diffs with syntax highlighting.
      • riff - Wrapper around (`git`) `diff` highlighting which parts of lines that changed.
      • ydiff - Pager for git diff, supports unified and side-by-side view, highlights inline changes.
    • Standard Tools

      • GNU Diffutils - Popular set of tools to compute unified diffs between files, supports two-way and three-way diffs.
      • git (diff) - Popular version control system, can compute unified diffs between commits, workings trees, branches, etc.
  • Other Text Formats

    • Diff Enhancers

      • daff - Library for comparing tables format such as csv files.
      • dyff - Pager for git diff (or standalone) for YAML/JSON, enhances display of changes and their location.
      • Graphtage - Semantic diff for JSON, JSON5, XML, HTML, YAML, CSV.
      • jd - Creates diffs for JSON/YAML files, also supports patching.
      • OpenAPI-diff - Utility for comparing two OpenAPI specifications.
      • prettier-diff - Wrapper around git diff for JavaScript/JSON, preprocesses the data with a prettifier.
      • xcdiff - Terminal utility to find differences between two .xcodeproj project files.
      • JSON Diff - Online tool to compute a semantic diff for JSON files.
      • nbdime - Diffing and merging of Jupyter Notebooks.
  • Databases

    • Diff Enhancers

  • PDF

    • Diff Enhancers

      • diff-pdf - Generates a PDF file with visually highlighted differences based on the input PDFs.
      • DiffPDF - Interactive GUI for comparing two PDF files.
  • Binary Data

    • Diff Enhancers

      • diffuse - Compares the content of APKs, AABs, AARs, and JARs.
      • multidiff - Utility to diff multiple binary objects or streams of data.
      • VBinDiff - Side by side comparison of binary data in hex and ascii format.
  • Folder Comparison

    • Diff Enhancers

      • Meld - Supports text based files, also integrates with version control systems.