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Diffsitter – A Tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs

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diffsitter

Disclaimer

diffsitter is very much a work in progress and nowhere close to production ready (yet). Contributions are always welcome!

Summary

diffsitter creates semantically meaningful diffs that ignore formatting differences like spacing. It does so by computing a diff on the AST (abstract syntax tree) of a file rather than computing the diff on the text contents of the file.

diffsitter uses the parsers from the tree-sitter project to parse source code. As such, the languages supported by this tool are restricted to the languages supported by tree-sitter.

diffsitter supports the following languages:

Bash

C#

C++

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