Byron
Add `gix diff` to CLI
Summary 💡
I found that there is no gix diff yet, but I think it would be very useful in the context of developing gix blame. I searched the issue list, but as far as I could tell, there was no issue related to gix diff yet. I’d like to start working on adding gix diff if it isn’t on anyone’s todo list yet.
Motivation 🔦
This will be helpful in debugging, in particular for gix blame.
Tasks
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gix diff tree#1626
That's a great idea and I welcome you to implement it in a first version, suitable to help with gix blame.
I may add that we should probably follow the command-hierarchy laid out by gix merge, so what you probably want to implement is gix diff tree. It can be passed two trees as rev-spec and will produce some sort of visual diff.
And indeed, the reason it's not implemented yet was that it's purely in gitoxide-core with some work needed to get the visualization nice enough to be useful.
Since it's directly motivated to help with gix blame, I think it's fair to make it so - or in other words, there is no need to try to adhere to what Git does when diffing trees.
Are there any other subcommands it would make sense to implement at this point? I still have context, but for gix blame I currently don’t need more as far as I can tell.
If it's good enough for you let's close it, I also have no plans for more right now.