diffsitter performs diffs on text files using the AST to compute the diff
instead of using a naive text-based diff. This can give you more semantically
meaningful diff information, which will prevent diffs from getting polluted by
syntax differences, for example.
diffstter uses the parsers from the
tree-sitter project to parse
source code. As such, the languages supported by this tool are limited by the
languages supported by the tree-sitter project.
In order to develop for this project, you need to clone the project and initialize all submodules (each tree-sitter grammar is added as a subdirectory).
sh
git clone
git submodule --init --recursive
This uses cargo with the cc crate, so you need to install rust and have a
working C compiler (the tree-sitter grammars are written in C).