Wilfred/difftastic

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a structural diff that understands syntax 🟥🟩

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Forks: 518
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 245
Avg merge: 38m
Merged PRs (30d): 2

Dominant language: Rust
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted

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245 open issues indexed

It might be possible to display the diff for strings more effectively. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

Wilfred/difftastic#1048 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
bug(crash): thread panic while loading file diff Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

Wilfred/difftastic#1047 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Haskell diffing fails frequently Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

Wilfred/difftastic#1036 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 12, 2026
[Feature Request]: Ability to highlight specified diff line numbers range Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

Wilfred/difftastic#1035 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
--skip-unchanged ignores file permissions changes Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100

Wilfred/difftastic#1028 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
Empty files are handled incorrectly when diffing directories Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

Wilfred/difftastic#1027 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 7, 2026
Treat equivalent JSX whitespace expressions as unchanged Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

Wilfred/difftastic#1026 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 7, 2026
Feature request: Add an interdiff mode Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

Wilfred/difftastic#1017 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 22, 2026
[Feature Request] Fall back to line-to-line diff when colors are disabled Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

Wilfred/difftastic#1010 · Opened Jul 11, 2026
Add support for AutoHotkey Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

Wilfred/difftastic#1009 · Opened Jul 11, 2026
Pijul three-way conflict diff Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

Wilfred/difftastic#1005 · Opened Jul 3, 2026
OSC-1717 support for better integration in lazygit Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Wilfred/difftastic#1004 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 26, 2026
Werid Diff for Nix in inline mode Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

Wilfred/difftastic#1003 · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 26, 2026
Multiline string literal context limit Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

Wilfred/difftastic#1001 · Opened Jun 25, 2026
suboptimal handling for code moved into a new function Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

Wilfred/difftastic#999 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 23, 2026
Crashes on python file with "Hunk lines should be present in matched lines" Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

Wilfred/difftastic#995 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 16, 2026
Weird diff for ruby heredocs Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Wilfred/difftastic#994 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 15, 2026
Feature request: show breadcrumbs for better context information Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

Wilfred/difftastic#991 · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 15, 2026
Feature request: GitHub-like background highlighting for added/removed code Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

Wilfred/difftastic#989 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 9, 2026
Multiline string change is not displayed correctly in single-column mode Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

Wilfred/difftastic#986 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 5, 2026
Compact inline view Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

Wilfred/difftastic#976 · 1 reaction · Opened May 1, 2026
Entity matching misses struct renames, shows as unrelated add/delete Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

Wilfred/difftastic#974 · Opened Apr 25, 2026
OS X: difft just crashes with unknown load command 0x80000034 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

Wilfred/difftastic#973 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 24, 2026
Diffing a large typescript type has poor performance Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Wilfred/difftastic#972 · Opened Apr 24, 2026
DFT_OVERRIDE_BINARY ignored when the file is removed Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

Wilfred/difftastic#967 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 29, 2026
Extra blank line at the end of files Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

Wilfred/difftastic#966 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 26, 2026
feat: make `git diff` always use difftastic unless in a non-interactive mode Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

Wilfred/difftastic#965 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 24, 2026
Question: how to ignore a file (or show it as binary diff) when using difft as external git diff command? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Wilfred/difftastic#964 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 23, 2026
Highlight words changed when renaming files Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

Wilfred/difftastic#963 · Opened Mar 18, 2026
error: Difftastic does not support being called with 8 arguments Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

Wilfred/difftastic#952 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 18, 2026
Crash on a particular file when used as `git`'s external diff tool Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Wilfred/difftastic#941 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 15, 2026
Unexpected lines highlighted in Rust after chain method removal Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

Wilfred/difftastic#937 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 1, 2026
[Q] what is the correct config for [difftool "difftastic"]? Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

Wilfred/difftastic#932 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 11, 2025
Binary release fails with jemalloc error Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Wilfred/difftastic#929 · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 1, 2025
Debug build panics due to `debug_assert_eq!("\t".width(), 0);` assertion Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Wilfred/difftastic#922 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 19, 2025
Feature Request: Flag to ignore whitespace changes Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Wilfred/difftastic#921 · 3 reactions · Opened Nov 17, 2025
Add warning about the repository size (>1.6Gb) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

Wilfred/difftastic#920 · 4 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Nov 16, 2025
Pagination support Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Wilfred/difftastic#917 · 6 reactions · Opened Nov 11, 2025
[Feedback] JSON display mode schema Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

Wilfred/difftastic#916 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 9, 2025
How can I use this tool with vim Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

Wilfred/difftastic#914 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 31, 2025
Diff of a broken symlink gives: `No such file` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

Wilfred/difftastic#912 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 29, 2025
Bug with template strings in js, ts Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

Wilfred/difftastic#911 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 29, 2025
Unvendoring parsers Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Wilfred/difftastic#891 · 3 reactions · Opened Oct 6, 2025
Drop symbols that only occur on one side Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

Wilfred/difftastic#883 · Opened Sep 30, 2025
Fallback diff missing lines with inline display mode Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 44/100

Wilfred/difftastic#880 · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 27, 2025
Be smarter about splitting up work when there's novel code at the end of a file Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Wilfred/difftastic#875 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 5, 2025
Syntax highlighting doesn't work for embedded languages. Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Wilfred/difftastic#873 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 25, 2025
Improve diff rendering for symlinks Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Wilfred/difftastic#871 · Opened Aug 14, 2025
Any way to use with git commit output? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Wilfred/difftastic#867 · Opened Jul 31, 2025
panic at /src/display/style.rs for XML file with UTF-8 Open

triaged

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

Wilfred/difftastic#865 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 29, 2025

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