File Diff Generator

Installing

npm install file-diff-generator

What is it?

file-diff-generator generates colourised differences between any kinds of files from two different sources and indicates if they were added, deleted or changed.

The added, deleted or changed files are collated into the output folder with the adddition of a file called filesList.html which contains hyperlinks to the relevant files in the output directory. This is useful if the output needs to be rendered by a web server.

Changed file

Added file

Deleted File

Options

Usage:

file-diff-generator --new= NEW SOURCE --old= OLD SOURCE --output= DESTINATION [OPTIONS]

--outputFormat Whether to display the differences line-by-line or side-by-side (default: line-by-line)

--regexReplacement An array of regular expressions in JSON to replace text in source files (default: none)

--merge Whether to merge all the output files into a single file called allResults.html (default: false)

Usage Examples

file-diff-generator --new=/root/new --old=/root/old --output=/root/output --outputFormat=side-by-side

file-diff-generator --new=/root/new --old=/root/old --output=/root/output merge=true

file-diff-generator --new=/root/new --old=/root/old --output=/root/output --regexReplacement='[{ regex: /build.1278/, replacement: \"\" }]'