Side by Side diffs

[hipstersmoothie]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I'm way better at reading side by side diffs

Describe the solution you'd like

LazyGit can be configured to show side by side diffs

[jesseduffield]

see #161

[jesseduffield]

This has now been implemented. See https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/blob/master/docs/Custom_Pagers.md

If anybody would like to see changes to the feature, let me know :) closing

[haydenflinner]

Is there a minimal example of how to get side by side diffs from this custom pager support? from the pictures it looks like ydiff will do the trick, is that the best option?

Edit found this from reddit:

cargo install git-delta
# Put this in ~/.config/lazygit/config.yml
git: 
    paging:
        colorArg: always
        pager: delta --dark --paging=never --syntax-theme base16-256 -s

[iklobato]

For those who are new at lazygit, here is the step by step to make it show git diff side by side

1. Install git delta

$ brew install git-delta

2. Open the configuration file

Linux: ~/.config/lazygit/config.yml
MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/lazygit/config.yml
Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\lazygit\config.yml (default location, but it will also be found in %APPDATA%\lazygit\config.yml

or

Linux: ~/.config/jesseduffield/lazygit/config.yml
MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/jesseduffield/lazygit/config.yml
Windows: %APPDATA%\jesseduffield\lazygit\config.yml

3. Add the snipper from @haydenflinner

git: 
    paging:
        colorArg: always
        pager: delta --dark --paging=never --syntax-theme base16-256 -s

4. Close and reopen lazygit

[dhupee]

For those who used NixOS, you can use example from my dotfiles https://github.com/dhupee/dotfiles/blob/master/private_dot_nix-configs/modules/home-manager/git.nix

I reference @ iklobato comment and applied that in NixOS, great job

[hk0i]

@iklobato what about when we go into a single file to stage changes? mine doesn't appear to be using the custom pager for that.
I mainly want the syntax highlighting from delta:

[hk0i]

never mind looks like that's not possible, according to #1335 (reply in thread)

[stefanhaller]

@hk0i Some work on this has been started in #4332, but it is nowhere near finished.