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Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für spaceman-diff in AI-Agent-Workflows.
Installation
Weitere Installationsbefehle
Überblick
Paketzusammenfassung
Diff images from the command-line
Projektlinks
Befehle und Aliase
- spaceman-diff
Verlauf
Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
spaceman-diff is a small shell-oriented image diff helper that plugs into Git diff. It renders changed images as colorful ASCII approximations in the terminal and reports practical metadata such as file-size changes.
Projektgeschichte
The official README describes spaceman-diff as a quick drop-in to `git-diff` for image files. It was cobbled together by Zach Holman and depends on jp2a and ImageMagick to convert image content into terminal-friendly output.
The project is intentionally narrow: it handles changed images passed through Git's diff driver mechanism and documents that simple additions or removals are not rendered because Git does not pass those cases to the external diff command in the same way.
Adoptionsgeschichte
The README documents Homebrew installation, which made the tool easy to try for macOS developers already using Git from the terminal. Its adoption is best understood as a niche Git workflow helper rather than a general-purpose image comparison application.
Wie es verwendet wird
Users install jp2a and ImageMagick, install the `spaceman-diff` script, add image patterns to `~/.config/git/attributes`, and configure a custom Git diff driver in `~/.gitconfig`. After that, ordinary `git diff` invocations can display terminal previews for changed PNG, JPEG, and GIF files.
The README positions the tool as a quick verification aid: it helps a developer confirm that an image change is the intended one and that file size did not change unexpectedly.
Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren
spaceman-diff matters to package nerds because it is a classic tiny CLI wrapper around other packaged tools. Its usefulness depends on Git attributes, ImageMagick, jp2a, and the shell all lining up cleanly through a package manager.
It also shows why small formulas exist: a few lines of glue can turn a developer's normal `git diff` habit into a richer terminal workflow without adding a heavyweight GUI dependency.
Zeitleiste
- 2014: README screenshot assets indicate early public project activity.
- 2019: README screenshot was updated to show terminal image-diff output.
- Current README: Documents Homebrew installation and Git diff-driver configuration.
Related projects
- Git supplies the external diff-driver mechanism.
- jp2a converts JPEG images to ASCII for the terminal rendering path.
- ImageMagick handles image conversion tasks used by the script.
Quellen
- https://github.com/holman/spaceman-diff#readme
- source_facts.package-manager
Sicherheitslage
Risikostufe: blue
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.
Risikoklassifikator
blue Risiko · mittel Konfidenz · tool
Warum
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
Signale
- text:image
Installationsverhalten
- In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
- Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 1 Plattformziele verfügbar.
- Installiert mit 2 Laufzeitabhängigkeiten.
Empfohlene Prüfung
Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.
local files
Configuration and credential file locations
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Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
~/.config/git/attributes~/.gitconfig
Executables
Installierte Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
spaceman-diff | cli | globales Executable |
Aktualität
Version und Aktualität
Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.
Seite generiert2026-07-25
Manager-Version1.0.3
Manager aktualisiert
lokale DatenOK
Upstreamaktuell
neueste erkannte Versionv1.0.3
https://github.com/holman/spaceman-diff
- InfoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.niedrig Konfidenz
Installationsmetadaten
Paketmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:spaceman-diff |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.0.3 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Paketmanager-Seite | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/spaceman-diff |
| Homepage | https://github.com/holman/spaceman-diff |
| Repository | https://github.com/holman/spaceman-diff |
| Upstream-Dokumentation | https://github.com/holman/spaceman-diff#readme |
| Lizenz | MIT |
| Quellarchiv | https://github.com/holman/spaceman-diff/archive/refs/tags/v1.0.3.tar.gz |
| Abhängigkeiten | imagemagick, jp2a |
| Bottle | verfügbar (auf all) |
| Homebrew post-install | nicht definiert |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Registry-Fakten
Details aus der Quelldatenbank
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | spaceman-diff |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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Quellspur
Aus Repository-Daten generiert
Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Verwendete Quellen
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment