Installer ydiff avec Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil
• Docs amont
• Page du gestionnaire de paquets

Commandes et alias

• ydiff

Historique du projet

The GitHub repository was created on 2013-01-29, and the changelog begins with early PyPI-era releases in February 2013 under the original `cdiff` name. Within weeks it gained support for patch files, pipes, revision-control output, two-file comparison, color control, logs, and more robust diff parsing.

During 2013 and 2014, the project moved from a small colored-diff helper into a workspace-oriented reviewer: it added Git/SVN/Hg log handling, automatic terminal-width behavior, pager tuning, Python 3.4 support, and fixes for difficult unified diffs.

The 2018 1.1 release renamed the command from `cdiff` to `ydiff` to avoid a binary-name conflict on major distributions. Later releases added Perforce and Windows support, wide-character handling, word-level change blocks, default side-by-side behavior, and customizable themes.

Historique d'adoption

Ydiff adopted well for a small terminal tool because it solved a common packaging pain point: colorful side-by-side diffs without a GUI and without a heavy dependency stack. Its README documents installation from source, PyPI, Homebrew, Fedora, and FreeBSD.

Distribution adoption is visible in Homebrew, Fedora, FreeBSD/OpenBSD, Debian-derived package naming, and Nix-style package indexes. The rename from cdiff to ydiff is especially package-nerd relevant because it was driven by command-name collision management across distributions.

Modes d'utilisation

Users run `ydiff` inside Git, Mercurial, Perforce, or Subversion workspaces to view current changes, staged Git changes via passed-through options such as `--cached`, or revision logs via `-l`. It can also consume `git show`, `git log -p`, `svn diff`, `diff -u`, directory diffs, and GitHub pull-request `.diff` URLs from stdin.

The practical attraction is that ydiff wraps ordinary unified diffs with readable terminal presentation: side-by-side or unified layout, automatic width detection, line wrapping controls, pager selection, themes, color modes, and safe redirection back to patch files.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Ydiff is a neat package-manager case study because almost all of its value ships as one Python command. Packaging it is mostly about naming, executable placement, and keeping terminal behavior consistent across Unix-like systems.

The cdiff-to-ydiff rename captures a real packaging concern: a project can be technically simple and still need an upstream identity change once distribution command namespaces collide.

Chronologie

• 2013-01-29: The ymattw/ydiff repository is created.
• 2013-02-04: Early PyPI-oriented changelog entries appear for cdiff.
• 2013-02-18: The changelog adds log-reading support for SVN and Mercurial patch logs.
• 2014-06-04: Python 3.4 support appears in the changelog.
• 2018-06-05: The project is renamed from cdiff to ydiff to avoid binary-name conflicts on major distributions.
• 2020-08-08: Perforce workspace and pager-customization support are added.
• 2024-11-13: Word-level change blocks and theme selection land in the 1.4 line.
• 2025-12-06: The changelog records INI-based custom themes and source/wheel publication changes.

Related projects

• Related tools include cdiff, colordiff, diff, git diff, git show, git log -p, svn diff, hg log -p, Perforce diff tooling, icdiff, delta, diff-so-fancy, less, patchutils, and terminal pager workflows.

Sources

• https://api.github.com/repos/ymattw/ydiff
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ydiff
• https://github.com/ymattw/ydiff
• https://github.com/ymattw/ydiff/issues/66
• https://packages.debian.org/sid/python3-ydiff
• https://pypi.org/project/ydiff/
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ymattw/ydiff/master/CHANGES.rst
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ymattw/ydiff/master/README.rst