Features

• Language syntax highlighting with color themes
• Within-line highlights based on a Levenshtein edit inference algorithm
• Side-by-side view with line-wrapping
• Line numbering
• n and N keybindings to move between files in large diffs, and between diffs in log -p views (--navigate)
• Improved merge conflict display
• Improved git blame display (syntax highlighting; --hyperlinks formats commits as links to GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket etc)
• Syntax-highlights grep output from rg, git grep, grep, etc
• Support for Git's --color-moved feature.
• Code can be copied directly from the diff (-/+ markers are removed by default).
• diff-highlight and diff-so-fancy emulation modes
• Commit hashes can be formatted as terminal hyperlinks to the GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket page (--hyperlinks). File paths can also be formatted as hyperlinks for opening in your OS.
• Stylable box/line decorations to draw attention to commit, file and hunk header sections.
• Git style strings (foreground color, background color, font attributes) are supported for >20 stylable elements

| | delta | git | diff-so-fancy / diff-highlight | github/gitlab | | ---------------------------------------------- | ----- | --- | ------------------------------------- | ------------- | | language syntax highlighting | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | | within-line insertion/deletion detection | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | | multiple insertion/deletions detected per line | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | | matching of unequal numbers of changed lines | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | | independently stylable elements | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | | line numbering | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | | side-by-side view | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |

In addition, delta handles traditional unified diff output.