Diff So Fancy vs git-fastclone

Overview

git-fastclone

Stacks2

Followers9

Votes0

GitHub Stars191

Forks29

Diff So Fancy

Stacks43

Followers67

Votes14

GitHub Stars17.8K

Forks338

Diff So Fancy vs git-fastclone: What are the differences?

Developers describe Diff So Fancy as "Make Git diffs look good". diff-so-fancy builds on the good-lookin' output of git contrib's diff-highlight to upgrade your diffs' appearances. On the other hand, git-fastclone is detailed as "git clone --recursive on steroids, by Square". It creates a reference repo with git clone --mirror in /var/tmp/git-fastclone/reference for each repository and git submodule linked in the main repo. You can control where it puts these by changing the REFERENCE_REPO_DIR environment variable.

Diff So Fancy and git-fastclone belong to "Git Tools" category of the tech stack.

Diff So Fancy and git-fastclone are both open source tools. Diff So Fancy with 11.9K GitHub stars and 250 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than git-fastclone with 164 GitHub stars and 20 GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

git-fastclone	Diff So Fancy
It creates a reference repo with git clone --mirror in /var/tmp/git-fastclone/reference for each repository and git submodule linked in the main repo. You can control where it puts these by changing the REFERENCE_REPO_DIR environment variable.	diff-so-fancy builds on the good-lookin' output of git contrib's diff-highlight to upgrade your diffs' appearances.
Create a reference repo for every repository and their submodules; Updates mirrors from origin and clones into target directory	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars 191	GitHub Stars 17.8K
GitHub Forks 29	GitHub Forks 338
Stacks 2	Stacks 43
Followers 9	Followers 67
Votes 0	Votes 14
Pros & Cons
No community feedback yet	Pros 7 Cool 3 Beautiful default style 2 Easy setup 1 Brew install recipe for simple Mac installation 1 Unobtrusive, you can however configure it to be default
Integrations
GitHub	Git

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ungit

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Check It Out

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Git Flow

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