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Diff to Html generates pretty HTML diffs from unified and git diff output in your terminal
## Features
* Unified diff and Git diff input
* `line-by-line` and `side-by-side` diff
* new and old line numbers
* inserted and removed lines
* GitHub like style
* Code syntax highlight
* Line similarity matching
## Online Example
> Go to [Diff2HTML](https://diff2html.xyz/)
## Distributions
* [WebJar](http://www.webjars.org/)
* [Node Module](https://www.npmjs.org/package/diff2html)
* [Bower Package](http://bower.io/search/?q=diff2html)
* [Node CLI](https://www.npmjs.org/package/diff2html-cli)
* Manually download and import `rtfpessoa/diff2html/dist/diff2html.min.js` into your page
## Setup
npm install -g diff2html-cli
## Usage
Usage: diff2html [options] -- [diff args]
| flag | alias | description | choices | default |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| -s | --style | Output style | `line`, `side` | `line` |
| --sc | --synchronisedScroll | Synchronised horizontal scroll | `true`, `false` | `true` |
| --su | --summary | Show files summary | `closed`, `open`, `hidden` | `closed` |
| --lm | --matching | Diff line matching type | `lines`, `words`, `none` | `none` |
| --lmt | --matchWordsThreshold | Diff line matching word threshold | | `0.25` |
| --lmm | --matchingMaxComparisons | Diff line matching maximum line comparisons of a block of changes | `2500` |
| --hwt | --htmlWrapperTemplate | Path to custom template to be rendered when using the `html` output format | _[string]_ |
| -f | --format | Output format | `html`, `json` | `html` |
| -i | --input | Diff input source | `file`, `command`, `stdin` | `command` |
| -o | --output | Output destination | `preview`, `stdout` | `preview` |
| -u | --diffy | Upload to diffy.org | `browser`, `pbcopy`, `print` | |
| -F | --file | Send output to file (overrides output option) | _[string]_ | |
| --ig | --ignore | Ignore particular files from the diff | _[string]_ | |
| -v | --version | Show version number | | |
| -h | --help | Show help | | |
Examples:
`diff2html -s line -f html -d word -i command -o preview -- -M HEAD~1`
- diff last commit, line by line, word comparison between lines, previewed in the browser and input from git diff command
`diff2html -i file -- my-file-diff.diff`
- reading the input from a file
`diff -u file1.txt file2.txt | diff2html -i stdin`
- reading diff from stdin
`diff2html -f json -o stdout -- -M HEAD~1`
- print json format to stdout
`diff2html -F my-pretty-diff.html -- -M HEAD~1`
- print to file
`diff2html -F my-pretty-diff.html --hwt my-custom-template.html -- -M HEAD~1`
- print to file using custom markup templates can include the following variables:
- `` - writes default CSS to page
- `` - writes default JavaScript UI scripts to page
- `//diff2html-fileListCloseable` - writes code to support selected list interaction, must be within a `