tldr/pages/common/delta.md

delta

A viewer for Git and diff output. More information: https://dandavison.github.io/delta/full---help-output.html.

• Compare files or directories:

delta {{path/to/old_file_or_directory}} {{path/to/new_file_or_directory}}

• Compare files or directories, showing the line numbers:

delta {{[-n|--line-numbers]}} {{path/to/old_file_or_directory}} {{path/to/new_file_or_directory}}

• Compare files or directories, showing the differences side by side:

delta {{[-s|--side-by-side]}} {{path/to/old_file_or_directory}} {{path/to/new_file_or_directory}}

• Compare files or directories, ignoring any Git configuration settings:

delta --no-gitconfig {{path/to/old_file_or_directory}} {{path/to/new_file_or_directory}}

• Compare, rendering commit hashes, file names, and line numbers as hyperlinks, according to the hyperlink spec for terminal emulators:

delta --hyperlinks {{path/to/old_file_or_directory}} {{path/to/new_file_or_directory}}

• Display the current settings:

delta --show-config

• Display supported languages and associated file extensions:

delta --list-languages