Some people are really a big fan of ‘vim’ and so they also use ‘vimdiff’ over the default ‘diff’ utility. ‘vimdiff’ shows you a side by side diff which is very easy to read (shown in the image below).
Now if you are using ‘git’ and you run ‘git diff’ you will get a diff which is not very human readable. Thats where ‘vimdiff’ comes.
> git diff
diff --git a/todo-java-app/pom.xml b/todo-java-app/pom.xml
index 96aebba..6b9af3f 100644
--- a/todo-java-app/pom.xml
+++ b/todo-java-app/pom.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+testing
4.0.0
com.rokoder
todo-java-app
@@ -48,4 +49,4 @@
5.1.18
-
\ No newline at end of file
+
>
>
‘git’ supports ‘vimdiff’ as a diff tool. Run the below command to change the diff tool to ‘vimdiff’.
(more…)