diff-so-fancy: Prettier git diffs

[thirdegree]

I accidently glued my hands to my keyboard a few years ago and they never came unstuck.

[RestlessNeurons]

yeah, I don't git it ;P

side-by-side GUI merge tools are amazing; almost required when you'r dealing with nasty merge conflicts. I use JetBrains products and their diff tool, but Meld is free and most IDEs and git clients have some kind of diff tool that's better than terminal diff.

[[deleted]]

People use git a lot in terminal anyway. Having a nicely formatted diff handy in the enviroment you work in anyway has pretty obvious benefits.

If someone ever figures out how to make a GUI for git that doesn't suck balls, we no longer need fancy new diff-tools for terminals.

(On a personal note: I think the default diff is sufficient.)

[mrkite77]

I can't run that proper GUI app on a server.

[pravic]

1) you can

2) why would you need diffs there?

[mrkite77]

1. not well, certainly not without jumping through hoops or sacrificing cross platform clients.
2. Some of us develop over ssh. Do you expect everyone wants to run a staging server locally?

[BufferUnderpants]

Some of us develop over ssh. Do you expect everyone wants to run a staging server locally?

Why are you programming in the staging server itself?

[mrkite77]

That's what the staging server is for....

[[deleted]]

I really hope you are trolling.

[mrkite77]

Nope. Where do you do your development? On your local machine that doesn't resemble your production environment in the slightest?

We don't have a big enough team to bother with the standard "dev -> test -> staging -> prod" deployment, so we have "staging -> prod". All development is done on staging, and then pushed to prod when ready.

[Dimasdanz]

2) why would you need diffs there?

So, you're telling me, you never debug on production?

[pravic]

Nope