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Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax (difftastic.wilfred.me.uk)

submitted 8 months ago by canpolat@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] AbelianGrape@beehaw.org 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

How does this compare with GumTree? It's weird that the page doesn't even mention existing state-of-the-art tools for this task.

edit: I've compared GumTree and difftastic myself while working on a project this past week. Difftastic is harder to use programatically (the JSON format is unstable and leaves something to be desired) but other than that it's miles and miles better.

[–] key@lemmy.keychat.org 5 points 8 months ago

The manual talks about some of the older alternatives that influenced it. Doesn't directly compare them though https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/tree_diffing.html