A CLI application that compares two configuration files, then computes a difference between them and shows it in the terminal, similar to git diff command.
To install gendiff on your computer, you should:
- Download or clone this repository
- Open a terminal window in the project folder and run:
npm link
This will install Gendiff as a global npm package you can run in a terminal window.
Gendiff supports json, yaml and ini file formats. To generate the difference between two files, you need to go to your terminal window and type in:
gendiff file1.json file2.json
Note that Gendiff accepts both relative and absolute paths. By default Gendiff will output the difference in a tree-like format. You can change the output format providing an optional --format option with a specific format name:
gendiff --format tree file1.ini file2.ini
gendiff --format plain file1.json file2.json
gendiff --format json file1.yml file2.yml
Nothing prevents you from comparing two files of different formats, like this:
gendiff file1.yml file2.json
gendiff file1.ini file2.yaml
To access gendiff help, run this:
gendiff --help