Usage

Diffing Files

$ difft sample_files/before.js sample_files/after.js

Difftastic uses the file extension to decide which parser to use.

Diffing Directories

$ difft sample_files/dir_before/ sample_files/dir_after/

Difftastic will recursively walk the two directories, diffing files with the same name.

The --skip-unchanged option is useful when diffing directories that contain many unchanged files.

Language Detection

Difftastic guesses the language used based on the file extension, file name, and the contents of the first lines.

You can override the language detection by passing the --language option. Difftastic will treat input files as if they had that extension, and ignore other language detection heuristics.

$ difft --language cpp before.c after.c