Gdiffo - a git diff optimizer

Gdiffo aims to make git diff easy to use with the keyboard, especially when files are in deeply nested folders.

Examples

Let's say you run git status and get a long list like this one:

$ git status
...
Changed: app/code/../Controller/Index.xyz
Changed: app/code/../Model/File.xyz
Changed: app/view/../Layout.xyz

Now you can run gdiffo to get the diff of a specific files. Let's say you want the Index Controller:

gdiffo.sh 1
gdiffo.sh index

gdiffo.sh 1 will run git diff for the first file.

gdiffo.sh index will run git diff based on case insensitive search.

Also, you can run gdiffo for multiple files.

gdiffo.sh 1,3
gdiffo.sh 1-2,3

Requirements

• git (tested with version 2.45.0)
• sed (tested with version 4.9)
• awk (tested with version 5.3.0)

Create a git alias

Open ~/.gitconfig with your favorite text editor and add

[alias]
    diffo = "!bash YOUR_PATH/gdiffo.sh"

Change YOUR_PATH to the path of the Gdiffo repository.

Now you can run git diffo to run Gdiffo.