giff

This Rust program visualizes the differences between the current HEAD and a specified branch in a git repository using a formatted table output in your terminal. The differences are displayed with color-coded additions and deletions for better readability.

Features

• Branch Comparison: Compare changes between the current HEAD and a specified branch.
• Color-coded Output: Additions are displayed in green and deletions in red.
• Table Formatting: Uses comfy_table to format the output.

Requirements

• Rust (latest stable version)
• Git
• A terminal supporting ANSI escape codes for color output

Dependencies

This project uses the following Rust crates:

• clap: For command-line argument parsing.
• comfy_table: For creating and formatting tables.
• crossterm: For terminal manipulation.
• regex: For parsing git diff output.

Installation

cargo install giff

From source

git clone https://github.com/bahdotsh/giff.git
cd giff
cargo install --path .

Usage

giff -b branch //by default, the branch will be main

Example Output