I'm delighted to announce difftastic 0.12!
I've completely rewritten how diffs are displayed. Context is smarter, alignment is better, and handling of long lines is vastly improved. Lines are never truncated, and the display is much more space efficient.
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I've often found reading diffs tricky when I have to scroll up to see what file I'm in, then back down to the changes I'm interested in.
In difftastic, I'm experimenting with printing the file name on every hunk displayed.
On the importance of 'microbrowsers', small HTTP agents that fetch web pages to be displayed in embedded card UIs:
https://24ways.org/2019/microbrowsers-are-everywhere/
The Mono C# REPL has this fun feature where you can override how any type is displayed:




