Diff So Fancy vs Git LFS

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Diff So Fancy vs Git LFS: 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 LFS is detailed as "An open source Git extension for versioning large files". It replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server like GitHub.com or GitHub Enterprise.

Diff So Fancy and Git LFS belong to "Git Tools" category of the tech stack.

Diff So Fancy is an open source tool with 13.6K GitHub stars and 293 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Diff So Fancy's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Git LFS
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    Cool
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    Beautiful default style
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    Easy setup
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    Brew install recipe for simple Mac installation
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    What is Diff So Fancy?

    diff-so-fancy builds on the good-lookin' output of git contrib's diff-highlight to upgrade your diffs' appearances.

    What is Git LFS?

    It replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server like GitHub.com or GitHub Enterprise.

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