uutils/diffutils

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Drop-in replacement of diffutils in Rust

Stars: 276
Forks: 39
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 24
Avg merge: 3h 27m
Merged PRs (30d): 3

Dominant language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue

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24 open issues indexed

diff&cmp not suitable to be called as library functions. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

uutils/diffutils#280 · Opened Aug 31, 2026
sdiff: implement the `|` marker for changed lines Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

uutils/diffutils#272 · Opened Aug 15, 2026
diff: `-y` draws the gutter marker at the wrong column unless the gutter is 3 or 4 columns wide Open

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

uutils/diffutils#269 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
context hunk merging in diff Open

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

uutils/diffutils#268 · Opened Aug 9, 2026
diff: `-y --tabsize=<huge>` overflows the column arithmetic (overflow-checks only) Open

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

uutils/diffutils#264 · Opened Jul 17, 2026
diff panics (`into_string().unwrap()`) on a non-UTF-8 argument ending in `--width=N` Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

uutils/diffutils#247 · Opened Jun 16, 2026
diff panics on an oversized inline context count (`-c`/`-u`/`-C`/`-U`): parse overflow and capacity overflow Open

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

uutils/diffutils#245 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 10, 2026
diff panics (broken-pipe unwrap) when its stdout is closed early Open

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

uutils/diffutils#244 · Opened Jun 10, 2026
Git Tag str should not contain the prefix `v` Open

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

uutils/diffutils#239 · Opened Jun 6, 2026
Allow building individual binaries Open

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

uutils/diffutils#232 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 16, 2026
Let utilities identify themselves as being part of uutils in `--help` and `--version` Open

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

uutils/diffutils#222 · 1 comment · Opened May 1, 2026
cmp::parse_params exits the process on --help instead of returning Open

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

uutils/diffutils#220 · Opened Apr 21, 2026
SIGPIPE panics Open

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

uutils/diffutils#192 · 9 comments · Opened Mar 8, 2026
cmp argument parser rewrite Open

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

uutils/diffutils#177 · Opened Feb 27, 2026
diffutils > /dev/full panics Open

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

uutils/diffutils#165 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 29, 2026
Support --recursive flag Open

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

uutils/diffutils#162 · 3 reactions · Opened Jan 24, 2026
Parallel diff and cmp on binary files? Open

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

uutils/diffutils#121 · 2 comments · Opened May 31, 2025
Missing manpage Open

documentation good first issue

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

uutils/diffutils#120 · 4 comments · Opened May 19, 2025
Consider using an external argument parser Open

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

uutils/diffutils#97 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 30, 2024
How to approach --help implementation Open

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

uutils/diffutils#96 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 30, 2024
Some tests require `ed` and fail if it is not installed Open

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

uutils/diffutils#39 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 1, 2024
`sdiff` command is not implemented Open

good first issue

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

uutils/diffutils#16 · 6 comments · Opened Feb 18, 2024
`diff3` command is not implemented Open

good first issue

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

uutils/diffutils#15 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 18, 2024
Dependency Dashboard Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

uutils/diffutils#6 · Opened Jan 27, 2024

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