scratch/multi/blog/A-more-convenient-diff.md

isHidden: false menupriority: 1 kind: article created_at: 2011-08-17T11:33:30+02:00 en: title: A more convenient diff fr: title: Un diff plus pratique author_name: Yann Esposito author_uri: yannesposito.com tags: - diff - git en: - colors fr: - couleurs

en: Diff is a very useful tool. But it is not so easy to read for us, simple mortal. fr: diff est un utilitaire très pratique, mais il n'est pas facile à lire pour nous, les Hommes.

en: This is why, when you use git it will use a better formatting and colorize it. fr: C'est pourquoi, lorsque vous utilisez git, il vous montre un formatage plus agréable avec des couleurs.

en: Here is the script I use when I want to use human readable diff à la git.
fr: Voici le script que j'utilise lorsque je veux avoir un diff à la git.

#!/usr/bin/env zsh

Load colors helpers

autoload -U colors && colors

function colorize_diff { while read line; do case ${line[0]} in +) print -n $fg[green];; -) print -n $fg[red];; @) # Display in cyan the @@ positions @@ if [[ ${line[1]} = '@' ]]; then line=$(print $line | perl -pe 's#(@@[^@]@@)(.)$#'$fg[cyan]'$1'$reset_color'$2#') fi;;

esac
    print -- $line
    print -n $reset_color
    done

}

diff -u $* | colorize_diff