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Anyone have any favorite diffing tools? (lemmy.today)
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Does anyone have a favorite diff tool for reviewing lots of code? I'm thinking something along the lines like meld or vimdiff. I don't really need a git client. I'm comfortable with the git CLI. I'm mainly interested in making code reviews a little easier to manage.

I'm reviewing a large code change right now and the web interface sucks. It's slow. It doesn't load all the files at once. Cross referencing files sucks.

I know, I know. "Code changes should be small." I've already voiced that to my team, yet here we are. I'm trying to figure out a way to make this a little less miserable.

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I use GitLab diffs in single-file-view mode, TortoiseGit Merge when it exceeds what GitLab can reasonably display (including block indent changes I can ignore in TortoiseGit Merge or moves I can better track), and WinMerge (previously I used KDiff) for manual copy-paste text diffing (like copying blocks from the code change diff to compare similar, categorically similar code, or code moves, etc)

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