cdifflint 1.0.1

View colored, incremental diff in a workspace, annotated with messages from your favorite linter.

cdifflint

Term based tool to view colored, incremental diff in a Git/Mercurial/Svn workspace or from stdin, side by side with affected linting errors. Requires python (>= 2.7.0) and less.

Installation

Install with pip

Cdifflint is already listed on PyPI, you can install with pip if you have the tool.

pip install --upgrade cdifflint

Install with setup.py

You can also run the setup.py from the source if you don’t have pip.

git clone https://github.com/rgeoghegan/cdifflint.git
cd cdifflint
./setup.py install

Usage

Type cdifflint -h to show usage:

$ cdifflint -h
usage: cdifflint [-h] [-s] [-w N] [-l] [-c M] [-t {pep8,jslint,pyflakes}]

View colored, incremental diff in a workspace, annotated with messages from
your favorite linter.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -s, --side-by-side    enable side-by-side mode
  -w N, --width N       set text width for side-by-side mode, 0 for auto
                        detection, default is 80
  -l, --log             show log with changes from revision control
  -c M, --color M       colorize mode 'auto' (default), 'always', or 'never'
  -t {pep8,jslint,pyflakes}, --lint {pep8,jslint,pyflakes}
                        run the given linters and show the lint messages in
                        the diff. Currently supports pep8, jslint, pyflakes.
                        (Can be specified multiple times)

Note: Option parser will stop on first unknown option and pass them down to
underneath revision control

See also

The original code I cribbed from heavily is the cdiff tool, which does most of the heavy lifting.

Change log

Version 1.0.0 (2016-12-14)

• Working off cdiff version 0.9.8, can now show diffs, and also list any linter output within the diff.

Version 1.0.1 (2016-12-24)

• Fixing distributed package so it actually installs