pixi-diff-to-markdown

pixi-diff-to-markdown is a tool that generates markdown from a JSON diff that's generated by pixi update --json. It reads from the standard input and writes to the standard output.

pixi update --no-install --json | pixi exec pixi-diff-to-markdown > diff.md

Example output:

Installation

You can install pixi-diff-to-markdown using pip or pixi.

# via pixi
pixi global install pixi-diff-to-markdown
# via pip
pip install pixi-diff-to-markdown

Configuration

Depending on your use case, you may want to configure the output of pixi-diff-to-markdown. You can do this by creating a configuration section in pixi.toml or pyproject.toml.

# defaults
[tool.pixi-diff-to-markdown]
merge-dependencies = "no" # or "split-explicit" when there are three or more environments / platforms
hide-tables = "auto"
max-expanded-rows = 10
change-type-column = true
explicit-column = false
package-type-column = false
create-links-for-packages = true

You can also override the configuration options by passing them as arguments to pixi-diff-to-markdown.

pixi update --json | pixi-diff-to-markdown --merge-dependencies=yes --explicit-column

merge-dependencies

Depending on the amount of environments and platforms you have in your pixi.toml, it might make sense to either merge all dependencies into one table, split them by explicit and implicit dependencies or split them by environment and platform. For a large amount of environments and platforms, it is recommended to merge the dependencies into one table for deduplication. merge-dependencies can be set to one of the following values:

• no: Don't merge the dependencies, each environment will be displayed in their own table. Only recommended for a small amount of environments / platforms (example).
• yes: Merge all dependencies into one table and deduplicate them (example).
• split-explicit: Merge all dependencies into one table and deduplicate them but split the table into one explicit and one implicit table (example).

The default is no when there are less than three environments / platforms and split-explicit when there are three or more environments / platforms.

hide-tables

Whether to hide the tables in a collapsible object. hide-tables can be set to one of the following values (defaults to auto):

• no: Don't hide the tables (example).
• yes: Put the tables in collapsible objects (example).
• auto: Put the tables in collapsible objects if there are at most max-expanded-rows rows in each table.

max-expanded-rows

The maximum amount of rows in a table before it is hidden. Defaults to 10.

change-type-column

Whether to enable the Change column in the output (example true, example false).

explicit-column

Whether to enable the Explicit column in the output (example true, example false). If a dependency is explicitly defined in pixi.toml, it will be marked as Explicit. Otherwise, it will be marked as Implicit.

If this is set to false, the Explicit column will be omitted and the explicitly defined dependencies will be marked as cursive.

package-type-column

Whether to enable the Package Type column in the output (example true, example false). This column will show whether the dependency is a conda or pypi package.

create-links-for-packages

Whether to create links for packages from public channels (i.e., conda-forge or bioconda, etc.) or channels on prefix.dev (example). Defaults to true.