Side by side file diffing

[kirawi]

[zbindenren]

Maybe delta can help in that case: https://github.com/dandavison/delta

It is the best terminal diff viewer I ever used and it is also written in rust.

[sudormrfbin]

Delta is a pager that acts on already diffed data (with - and + prepended to diffed lines like in the default git diff output) and simply applies syntax highlighting and better colors it. We will have to use similar for this, which we already use in helix to :reload the file from disk.

[archseer]

@pascalkuthe mentioned he'll probably pick up the work on this in the future after git gutter is merged.

[pascalkuthe]

After #3890 is merged, the main blocker will be rendering the diffs side by side (as a form of virtual text). I am working with @kirawi to land the necessary changes in the rendering system to make that happen.

[LifeWorks]

Is this feature available in the current version? I see it is open, so I assume I still can not diff two buffers?

[archseer]

Yes, open issues typically indicate that a feature hasn't been implemented yet.

[wh75er]

Hello! Would it be possible to use inline git diff in one buffer? It would be amazing

[stevenxxiu]

Hello! Would it be possible to use inline git diff in one buffer? It would be amazing

Please open a separate issue for that.