difftastic
a structural diff that understands syntax 🟥🟩
difftree-sitter
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531contributors
7languages
Tech stack & purpose
Difftastic is a structural diff tool built in Rust that compares files based on their syntax rather than line-by-line differences. It uses tree-sitter parsers to understand the abstract syntax trees of over 30 programming languages, enabling it to accurately identify and highlight syntactic changes while intelligently handling whitespace and code reformatting. The project was created by Wilfred and integrates with version control systems like git and mercurial, though it has known limitations around performance on files with large numbers of changes and robustness issues that are addressed through regular releases.
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Languages
Rust
80.8%
CSS
7.7%
HTML
6.5%
JavaScript
4.0%
Roff
0.7%
Just
0.3%
Shell
0.0%
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- Wilfred Hughes3,284 commits · 1,237 followers
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- Timothy Clem389 commits
- Rob Rix300 commits
- Damien Guard257 commits
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- Ayman Nadeem151 commits
- Yuya Nishihara139 commits
- Alex Pinkus127 commits
- Stephan Seitz127 commits
- Patrick Förster126 commits
- Josh Vera122 commits
- Jonathan Arnett113 commits
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- Uy Ha111 commits
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- Torsten Schmits109 commits · 102 followers
- Michael Davis109 commits · 684 followers
