[Feature]: diffsitter instead of diff
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area:cli
effort-large
enhancement
help wanted
priority:low
- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 81k
- Forks
- 5.1k
- Avg merge
- 4d 21h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 35
Description
Reduces semantically meaningless information that only consumes tokens using diffsitter.
So instead of using diff, we can return diffsitter's reduced output
https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter
Only for supported languages:
Bash
C#
C++
CSS
Go
Java
OCaml
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Typescript/TSX
HCL
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the existing diff command implementation and checking how external tools are integrated. Review diffsitter's supported-language behavior, then verify that the command returns its reduced output for Bash, C#, C++, CSS, Go, Java, OCaml, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, TypeScript/TSX, and HCL.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli, devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100