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Diff So Fancy vs go-git: 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, go-git is detailed as "*Low-level and extensible Git client library in Go *". A low level and highly extensible git client library for reading repositories from git servers. It is written in Go from scratch, without any C dependencies.
Diff So Fancy and go-git belong to "Git Tools" category of the tech stack.
Diff So Fancy and go-git are both open source tools. It seems that Diff So Fancy with 11.9K GitHub stars and 250 forks on GitHub has more adoption than go-git with 4.12K GitHub stars and 433 GitHub forks.
Pros of Diff So Fancy
- Cool7
- Beautiful default style3
- Easy setup2
- Brew install recipe for simple Mac installation1
- Unobtrusive, you can however configure it to be default1