Two-column web-based git difftool.

Features include:

• Side-by-side (two column) diff view
• Runs in the browser of your choice on any platform.
• Syntax highlighting via highlight.js
• Step back and forth through multiple files in a single diff
• Rich support for image diffs

pip install webdiff

Instead of running "git diff", run:

git webdiff

You can also start webdiff via:

git webdiff [args]

You can pass all the same arguments that you would to git diff, e.g. 1234..5678 or HEAD.

webdiff can also be invoked directly to diff two directories or files:

webdiff <left_dir> <right_dir>
webdiff <left_file> <right_file>

You can also use webdiff to view GitHub pull requests:

webdiff https://github.com/owner/repo/pull/123
webdiff #123  # if you're in a git repo with a github remote

This will download the files relevant to the Pull Request and run webdiff.

If you run into GitHub API quota limits, you can set your credentials in a .githubrc file:

user.login: yourusername
user.password: yourpassword

Make sure you chmod this file to only be readable by yourself. In the future we'll support Oauth.

(from an activated virtualenv)

pip install -r requirements.txt
bower install
./webdiff/app.py testdata/dygraphsjs/{left,right}

or to launch in debug mode:

./test.sh $(pwd)/../testdata/webdiffdiff/{left,right}

(or any other directory in testdata)

To run the Python tests:

nosetests

To run the JavaScript tests:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer
open tests/runner.html

To iterate on the PyPI package, run:

# from outside the webdiff virtualenv:
pip uninstall webdiff

# from inside the webdiff virtualenv, adjust for current version
python setup.py sdist
mkdir /tmp/webdiff-test
cp dist/webdiff-X.Y.Z.tar.gz /tmp/webdiff-test

deactivate
cd /tmp/webdiff-test
pip install webdiff-X.Y.Z.tar.gz