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delta — A viewer for Git and diff output. See also: `diff`, `difft`. More information: <https://dandavison.g

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Problem

How to use the delta command: A viewer for Git and diff output. See also: diff, difft. More information: <https://dandavison.github.io/delta/full---help-output.html>.

Solution

delta — A viewer for Git and diff output. See also: diff, difft. More information: <https://dandavison.github.io/delta/full---help-output.html>.

Compare files or directories:

delta {{path/to/old_file_or_directory}} {{path/to/new_file_or_directory}}

Compare files or directories, showing the line numbers:

delta {{[-n|--line-numbers]}} {{path/to/old_file_or_directory}} {{path/to/new_file_or_directory}}

Compare files or directories, showing the differences side by side:

delta {{[-s|--side-by-side]}} {{path/to/old_file_or_directory}} {{path/to/new_file_or_directory}}

Compare files or directories, ignoring any Git configuration settings:

delta --no-gitconfig {{path/to/old_file_or_directory}} {{path/to/new_file_or_directory}}

Compare, rendering commit hashes, file names, and line numbers as hyperlinks, according to the hyperlink spec for terminal emulators:

delta --hyperlinks {{path/to/old_file_or_directory}} {{path/to/new_file_or_directory}}

Display the current settings:

delta --show-config

Display supported languages and associated file extensions:

delta --list-languages

Code Snippets

Compare files or directories

delta {{path/to/old_file_or_directory}} {{path/to/new_file_or_directory}}

Compare files or directories, showing the line numbers

delta {{[-n|--line-numbers]}} {{path/to/old_file_or_directory}} {{path/to/new_file_or_directory}}

Compare files or directories, showing the differences side by side

delta {{[-s|--side-by-side]}} {{path/to/old_file_or_directory}} {{path/to/new_file_or_directory}}

Compare files or directories, ignoring any Git configuration settings

delta --no-gitconfig {{path/to/old_file_or_directory}} {{path/to/new_file_or_directory}}

Compare, rendering commit hashes, file names, and line numbers as hyperlinks, according to the hyperlink spec for terminal emulators

delta --hyperlinks {{path/to/old_file_or_directory}} {{path/to/new_file_or_directory}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/delta

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