git_diff_highlight

Git Diff Highlight

Git Diff Highlight is a command line tool in order for Git to highlight by character.

There are already great highlighters for Git such as diff-highlight. But it's sometimes hard to see differences when your text contains long paragraphs without line break. In such a case, highlighted areas are covered almost all of paragraph, so you can hardly discover differences in them:

With Git Diff Highlight, however, it shows every detail of differences because highlights are oriented by character:

So, as you can see from the above images, Git Diff Highlight is meant not for programmers but for writers, who write in CJK languages — Chinese, Japanese, and Korean — and who don't follow programmer's aesthetic convention (80 characters line break rule.)

Installation

gdhighlight command is available.

$ go get github.com/smagch/git-diff-highlight/gdhighlight

Usage

$ git diff --color | gdhighlight

Testing

$ go test

TODO

• add Color Config as diff-highlight do.
• avoid panic().
• GitHub Release to distribute binary, if some people find this package useful.