Livediff is a lightweight terminal application that displays live diffs as files change.
It provides immediate feedback while generators, refactoring tools, migrations, formatters, and other processes modify files.
It complements git diff by monitoring filesystem events and presenting changes in an interactive terminal interface.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Monitors file changes in real time using native operating system filesystem events.
- Interactive terminal interface built with Ratatui and Crossterm.
- Displays character-level differences with precise added and removed highlights.
- Uses event-driven redraws for a low idle footprint.
- Respects .gitignore files and supports custom glob ignore patterns.
- Can monitor a specific directory or path.
- Supports displaying hidden files.
- Offers controls for ignoring parent, VCS, and other ignore files.
Website: github.com/SoCkEt7/Livediff
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Developer: Antonin Nivoche
License: MIT License or Apache-2.0
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