delta
last updated: Oct 20, 2023
https://github.com/dandavison/delta
delta
gives git much nicer diff output in your console.
One great feature it supports is side-by-side diffs, which are great but don't work in narrow terminals; While that feature is still not yet implemented by delta, we can get its effect with a shell function in ~/.zshrc
or ~/.bashrc
:
# set side-by-side mode in delta only if the terminal is >= 120 lines. Assumes
# you don't have any other DELTA_FEATURES flags set.
# (https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/359)
export DELTA_FEATURES
function delta_sidebyside {
if [[ "${COLUMNS}" -ge 120 ]]; then
DELTA_FEATURES="side-by-side"
else
DELTA_FEATURES=""
fi
}
# when the terminal resizes, WINCH gets called; check the width and determine
# if side-by-side mode should be enabled
trap delta_sidebyside WINCH
# call delta_sidebyside at startup time to set the feature
delta_sidebyside