Why a user will opt to use klondiff instead of diff-so-fancy?

[jetm]

https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy

[pierstitus]

Thanks for bringing that project under attention, I personally didn't know about it. I had a look at it, and it's definitely interesting.

The differences I see:

Klondiff consists of two tools, a new diff algorithm, and a fancy diff colorizer, while diff-so-fancy is a post-processor for git diff.

Klondiff excells in handling indentation changes, which is hard to do in post-processing.
Also it finds more matching lines, when the number of lines in a changed block are different diff-so-fancy doesn't seem to search for similarity.
Klondiff diffs are human readable, but also still valid machine readable unified diffs.

diff-so-fancy does reformat the metadata to remove stuff that's not so interesting for humans.
Also it uses more colors, like dark backgrounds. Those are not supported on tty terminals, but I guess those are quite rarely used for development nowadays.

I do like the way diff-so-fancy is implemented as a git pager, and it might make sense to do the same with the klondiff colorizer. Also supporting more colors would be nice.

[jetm]

@pierstitus Thank you for the response. You might want to add your response to the README.md file. I think it will be usefully as a selection criterion.