diff-highlight: pretty diff highlighter; emphasis changed words in diff

diff-highlight adds word highlighting feature to git, mercurial and other diff viewers.

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Features

• Add highlights to diff output
• mercurial extension for diff highlighting

Setup

Use easy_install or pip::

$ sudo easy_install diff-highlight

Or

$ sudo pip install diff-highlight

Applying to git

Add pager settings to your $HOME/.gitconfig to enable word highlights::

[pager] log = diff-highlight | less show = diff-highlight | less diff = diff-highlight | less

and to use diff-highlight for git add -p::

[interactive] diffFilter = diff-highlight

Applying to mercurial

Add color and diff_highlight extensions to your $HOME/.hgrc to enable word highlights::

[extensions] color = diff_highlight =

Requirements

• Python 2.6 or 2.7, or Python 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 (or higher (mercurial extension works on python 2.x only)

License

Apache License 2.0 (highlights/pprint.py is under PSFL).

History

1.2.0 (2016-02-07)

• Grouping indented hunks
• Fix #1: highlight if large text appended
• Fix mercurial extension has been broken since mercurial-3.7.0

1.1.0 (2015-07-12)

• Drop py24 and py25 support
• Support git styled diff

1.0.3 (2015-03-30)

• Ignore IOError on showing result

1.0.2 (2014-06-08)

• Fix result of diff-highlight commannd is broken when diff-text includes new file (thanks @troter)

1.0.1 (2013-12-22)

• Fix diff-highlight command failed with python 2.4

1.0.0 (2013-12-22)

• Add diff-highlight command
• Support python 2.4, 2.5, 3.2 and 3.3

0.1.0 (2013-12-20)

• first release