[buug] Github diffs

[Michael Paoli]

Well, ... ugly and inefficient, ... but *might* suffice ...
if we allow a bashism ... and, I'm presuming Github has some
URLs that allow direct raw downloads of the various versions, so ...
with bash or similar, something like:

$ diff [options] <(command_that_outputs_a_version)  
<(command_that_outputs_another_version)

Can also skip/avoid the bashisms, by using some temporary named pipes.
Inefficient, of course, as that requires the full data from both  
versions - but
does allow one fully flexibility in how to compare/diff or otherwise  
handle those
two sets of data.

> From: "Ian Zimmerman" <itz at primate.net>
> Subject: [buug] Github diffs
> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 13:22:23 -0700

> Is there a way to tease a plain text diff (aka patch) out of github.com?
>
> It annoys me to no end that I can view any commit in any repo as a
> "pretty" colorized diff, but to get a patch that I can apply with the
> normal tools I apperently need to clone the whole repo locally.
>
> Am I missing something?