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A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, rg --json, and blame output

85 mentions on Hacker News by 58 people: 13 stories, 72 comments · first 2019-09-19 · latest 2026-11-01

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  1. …recently picked up delta [0] for quicker diffing in the terminal. Now I can have both easily. [0]: https://github.com/dandavison/delta
    comment by sixstringtheory · 2021-09-26 · in Code Review from the Command Line
  2. …command line. It pretty much replicates GitHub's diff rendering, and is quite configurable. [1]: https://github.com/dandavison/delta
    comment by imiric · 2021-08-01 · in New in Git: switch and restore
  3. Thanks, this is good advice. There are some super featureful diff tools out there. For example, https://github.com/dandavison/delta does a line-based diff but it also syntax highlights its output. I'm hoping that defining syntax in a…
  4. See also delta for diffing (and as a drop-in replacement for git diff) and exa for ls. https://github.com/dandavison/delta https://github.com/ogham/exa
    comment by kibwen · 2021-06-14 · in Ripgrep 13.0
  5. I've been using delta: https://github.com/dandavison/delta It can be easily set up...
  6. Yes! This is my number one thing as well. Let me dig up the tickets... Edit: https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/493#issuecomment-...
  7. I already use delta for this: https://github.com/dandavison/delta I thought delta was fairly well-known by now so I was surprised to see this project not mention it (the readme already has a section for that). I wonder what they've chosen…
  8. …for me to see and understand the differences. [1] gron https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron [2] delta https://github.com/dandavison/delta
  9. I use delta as a diff tool: https://github.com/dandavison/delta It also offers contextual information as well as side-by-side diffs. For syntax highlighting, it uses the same as bat (the cat clone).
  10. That's neat. I'll get it working with Delta ( https://github.com/dandavison/delta ), which makes diffs look much nicer.
    comment by d3nj4l · 2020-08-30 · in Better Git Diffs with FZF
  11. And I am working on implementing color-moved support https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/72
    comment by Myrmornis · 2020-07-29 · in Highlights from Git 2.28
  12. If you use git diffs frequently, I recommend setting up delta: https://github.com/dandavison/delta
    comment by square_usual · 2020-07-28 · in Highlights from Git 2.28
  13. …--pattern ^(commit|diff) " git log -p Delta[1] makes this convenient: delta --navigate. [1] https://github.com/dandavison/delta (Disclosure: I am the author of delta)
    comment by Myrmornis · 2020-07-27 · in Highlights from Git 2.28
  14. I myself have really enjoyed `delta` and the variety of configuration it has: https://github.com/dandavison/delta
    comment by erichdongubler · 2020-07-26 · in Colorize Your CLI
  15. …[bat]( https://github.com/sharkdp/bat ) du -> [ncdu]( https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu ) diff -> [delta]( https://github.com/dandavison/delta ) In combination with all of the above, [fzf]( https://github.com/junegunn/fzf ) suddenly becomes a…
    comment by IggleSniggle · 2020-07-26 · in Colorize Your CLI
  16. Looks like delta has an open issue: https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/86
  17. …(Rather than visualising add/rm with the foreground, it's visualised with the background colour). https://github.com/dandavison/delta
  18. …is a similar tool with syntax highlighting for most programming languages and customizable themes: https://github.com/dandavison/delta It doesn't have side-by-side diffs, but it's still well worth having around. It's a Unix filter, so it…
  19. …ever used. [0]: https://github.com/zdharma/zinit [1]: https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k [2]: https://github.com/dandavison/delta [3]: https://github.com/jarun/nnn
    comment by Seirdy · 2020-06-23 · in Favorite CLI Tools
  20. (delta author here) Line numbers have been added to delta in a contributed PR: https://github.com/dandavison/delta/pull/190 . It will merge soon and be in the next release. And we have an open issue for side-by-side view:…
    comment by Myrmornis · 2020-06-01 · in Show HN: `fzf` * `Git` done right
  21. …is fantastic (especially for Rust, but also Python. Those are the only ones I've tried so far.) https://github.com/dandavison/delta https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot
    comment by Myrmornis · 2020-05-15 · in Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
  22. …that could be made configurable. EDIT: In fact an issue was opened for this very recently: https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/130 Ideally, I think that a mouse click in an appropriate location in a terminal emulator window should…
  23. It does not, but it seems like a popular request: https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/40
  24. …viewers) and optionally cleans up the raw diff output slightly to make it more human readable. [0] https://github.com/dandavison/delta [1] https://github.com/trishume/syntect [2] http://github.com/sharkdp/bat/
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    Show HN: A syntax highlighter for Git and diff output, written in Rust
    story by Myrmornis · 2020-04-27 · 40 comments
  26. …to Github, Gitlab and other diff viewers) and removes visual clutter from Git and diff output. [0] https://github.com/dandavison/delta [1] http://github.com/sharkdp/bat/
    comment by Myrmornis · 2020-03-04 · in Delta: A Syntax-Highlighter for Git
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    Delta: A Syntax-Highlighter for Git
    story by Myrmornis · 2020-03-04 · 1 comment
  28. …to Github, Gitlab and other diff viewers) and removes visual clutter from Git and diff output. [0] https://github.com/dandavison/delta [1] http://github.com/sharkdp/bat/
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    Show HN: A syntax highlighter for Git and diff output, written in Rust
    story by Myrmornis · 2020-02-12 · 4 comments
  30. I have tried one project so far: https://github.com/dandavison/delta
    comment by Myrmornis · 2020-01-21 · in What is Rust and why is it so popular?
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    Delta – a syntax highlighting pager for Git
    story by joshka · 2019-11-06 · 0 comments
  32. I would add https://github.com/drbig/snb https://github.com/dandavison/delta https://github.com/MitMaro/git-interactive-rebase-tool
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    Show HN: A syntax-highlighting diff viewer for Git, written in Rust
    story by Myrmornis · 2019-10-10 · 0 comments
  34. (shameless plug): https://github.com/dandavison/delta is a syntax-highlighting pager for git that adds syntax highlighting and within-line edit detection to all diffs displayed by git. I agree about `git log -p`. A good trick with that is…
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    Show HN: A syntax-highlighting pager for Git
    story by Myrmornis · 2019-09-19 · 0 comments