dirdiffz

The goal of this project is to build a TUI that can replace BetterCompare / WinMerge / etc for my workflow.

Installation

macOS or Linux using brew

brew tap vakata/tap
brew trust --formula vakata/tap/dirdiffz
brew install dirdiffz

Linux manual install

Using prebuild binaries from the releases page.

# x86_64
curl -L https://github.com/vakata/dirdiffz/releases/latest/download/dirdiffz-linux-x86_64.tar.gz | tar -xz
sudo install dirdiffz /usr/local/bin/dirdiffz

# arm
curl -L https://github.com/vakata/dirdiffz/releases/latest/download/dirdiffz-linux-aarch64.tar.gz | tar -xz
sudo install dirdiffz /usr/local/bin/dirdiffz

Progress:

• recursively walk and diff as needed
• build a two panel TUI that shows the resulting tree
• add filters for same / different / orphans
• add the navigation and a minimal help popup
• integrate with vimdiff / neovim -d
• implement copy-to-left / copy-to-right / delete
• add confirm dialogs when copying / deleting
• preserve state when refreshing
• extract separate App struct from main
• add optional arguments for --no-color and --ignore
• add windows specific code (low priority for now)