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Docs: Emphasize that diff-so-fancy is usable as a general diff tool #328

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petdance opened this issue Apr 11, 2019 · 4 comments
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Docs: Emphasize that diff-so-fancy is usable as a general diff tool #328

petdance opened this issue Apr 11, 2019 · 4 comments

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@petdance
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I still use Subversion a lot and diff-so-fancy is great as a tool for Subversion diffs, too. Heck, any diffs. Currently, it sounds like it's a git-only tool.
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unphased commented Oct 9, 2019

Could you elaborate, how could I use it to compare two plain files, for example? It's not obvious.

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petdance commented Oct 9, 2019 •
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Take the output from diff -u and pipe it into diff-so-fancy.

diff -u old.txt new.txt | diff-so-fancy

diff-so-fancy isn't doing any diffing. It's just taking the diff output and making it prettier.

The fact that it's not obvious is my point for my submitting this suggestion.

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unphased commented Oct 9, 2019

Oh, right. Keep forgetting that diff needs -u to do the "standard" thing. Thanks.

martijnengler added a commit to martijnengler/diff-so-fancy that referenced this issue Nov 23, 2019
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Add info about using dsf as a "normal" diff tool
f65cbdf 
diff-so-fancy is great for git of course, but it's also very nice to use
for just normal diffs between two files

Fixes so-fancy#328
@martijnengler martijnengler mentioned this issue Nov 23, 2019
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martijnengler added a commit to martijnengler/diff-so-fancy that referenced this issue Nov 26, 2019
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Fix potential issue in dsf alias with spaces
7cd8f4c 
If there are no quotes around the arguments the dsf alias won't work
with spaces when used in bash. (Does seem to work in zsh.)

Goes to issue so-fancy#328 / PR so-fancy#358
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This should be addressed in b18ec02 which just landed.

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