Get diff / patch list from commit

[Pandapip1]

Pretty simple: a command that generates a list of diffs and/or patches, a la nodegit's commit.getDiff() or diff.patches().

[Pandapip1]

FYI - I've seen #1754. This is different, since it also contains data on which files were moved to where, deleted, etc...

[jcubic]

diff is out of scope for this library. But if you want you can implement something like this and share it with others.

[Pandapip1]

diff is out of scope for this library. But if you want you can implement something like this and share it with others.

What is the scope of this library, exactly? To me, this seems like the closest thing to a scope this project has:

isomorphic-git is a pure JavaScript reimplementation of git that works in both Node.js and browser JavaScript environments. It can read and write to git repositories, fetch from and push to git remotes (such as GitHub), all without any native C++ module dependencies.

As this project currently stands, it is not a suitable replacement for a library like nodegit because there's simply data that's not exposed by the current API.

[jcubic]

There are whole libraries whose only purpose is to create diff between files. So I don't see a reason to add diff to this library. You can use jsDiff to implement the patches, you don't even need to do anything in isomorphic-git itself. You can just write the code in user space.

[Pandapip1]

See my follow-up comment:

FYI - I've seen #1754. This is different, since it also contains data on which files were moved to where, deleted, etc...

I'm asking for the data that git itself provides about things like "which files were created, modified, or deleted" in any given commit!

[jcubic]

Oh, you have statusMatrix that does this.