Getting diff in a 'raw' format

[jakubka]

Hi,

Is it possible to get diff as a string in the same format as git itself produces?

I.e.

diff --git a/file.txt b/file.txt
index ada066f..a252b8c 100644
--- a/file.txt
+++ b/file.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 line 1
-line 2
-line 3
+this is a new line
+line change 3

I am planning to fetch this string to a library which will parse it and 'colorise' it before printing it to the console. So having an option to print the diff with colors would solve the problem as well.

Thanks for the great library!

Jakub

[Byron]

I think in that case you are better off calling repo.git.diff(...) directly, as GitPython does the same and will always parse it into a structured form.
I hope this answers your question.

[jakubka]

Thanks, this works 👍