[buug] Github diffs

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2016-09-26 22:13, Michael Paoli wrote:

> > Is there a way to tease a plain text diff (aka patch) out of
> > github.com?

> 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)

I sent my OP because I had a back of the mind feeling that there was
indeed a shortcut that I had forgotten.

The feeling was right.  You can just append ".diff" to the URL to get a
plain text diff.

Thanks for the suggestion, anyway :)

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