GitDiff

A Ruby library for parsing the unified diff format generated with git diff

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'git_diff'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install git_diff

Usage

Generate a diff

$ git diff
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bbbf9c9..9dff09f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Or install it yourself as:

     $ git diff

-#### Parse the output with
+#### Parse the output

     GitDiff.from_string(diff)

Parse the output

require "git_diff"

diff = "diff --git a/README.md b/README.md\nindex bbbf9c9..9dff09f 100644\n--- a/README.md\n+++ b/README.md\n@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Or install it yourself as:\n\n     $ git diff\n\n-#### Parse the output with\n+#### Parse the output\n\n     GitDiff.from_string(diff)\n\n"

diff = GitDiff.from_string(diff)

puts " #{diff_file.number_of_additions} addition(s)."
puts " #{diff_file.number_of_deletions} deletion(s)."

Outputs

1 addition(s).
1 deletion(s).

Run the tests

$ bundle exec rake test

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request