Getting Started
Installing a prebuilt package
Prebuilt packages are available on the following platforms.
Installing from source
Build Requirements
Difftastic is written in Rust, so you will need Rust installed. I recommend rustup to install Rust. Difftastic requires Rust version 1.56 or later.
You will also need a C++ compiler that supports C++14. If you're using GCC, you need at least version 8.
Build
You can download and build difftastic on crates.io with Cargo (which is part of Rust).
$ cargo install difftastic
Difftastic uses the cc
crate for building C/C++ dependencies. This
allows you to use environment variables CC
and CXX
to control the
compiler used (see the cc
docs).
See contributing for instructions on debug builds.
Diffing Files
$ difft sample_files/before.js sample_files/after.js
Difftastic uses the file extension to decide which parser to use.
Diffing Directories
$ difft sample_files/dir_before sample_files/dir_after
Difftastic will recursively walk the two directories, diffing files with the same name.