Navigate through a patch.

go get github.com/tcard/navpatch

Go from this: https://github.com/tyba/typeschema/pull/10/files

... to this:

(See live demo.)

This command displays a patch, like the ones that git diff produces, in a typical filesystem navigator. The interface is served through a web browser.

This was done in the 10 % of self-projects time Tyba allocates for its engineers.

Serve navpatch visualizations for any Git repositories on demand.

go get github.com/tcard/navpatch/navpatch.serve

This command launches a web server that, on demand, clones and manages Git repositories and displays the diffs between two commits. For example, after launching navpatch.serve, going to...

http://localhost:6177/github.com/tcard/navpatch?old=232eb53&new=6082eb0

... would clone the git+ssh://git@github.com/tcard/navpatch repo, copy it in another directory for this session, and display the diff between commits 232eb53 and 6082eb0.

It should work with any valid git clone URL. It also recognizes Github pull request URLs:

http://localhost:6177/github.com/tyba/typeschema/pull/10

... althought that assumes pull requests against the main branch not yet merged. (See to do list.)

For full options, including whitelisting and concurrent sessions limiting, see:

navpatch.serve -h

You can check a live demo running at http://fanyare.tcardenas.me:6177.

Only repos at github.com/tyba and github.com/tcard will work, though.

Some demo URLs:

• http://fanyare.tcardenas.me:6177/github.com/tyba/typeschema?old=29b179c&new=52f9f11
• http://fanyare.tcardenas.me:6177/github.com/tcard/navpatch?old=232eb53&new=6082eb0
• http://fanyare.tcardenas.me:6177/github.com/tcard/navpatch/pull/1

This command uses the git command, which should be installed in the system.

• A nicer CSS would be much appreciated.
• Docs!
• Tests?
• Overall integration with GitHub: 'See diff in GitHub', 'See pull request or commit', etc.
• Scrape Github HTML instead of using the git command; this would:
  • Improve performance, and reduce headache with caches, etc.
  • Remove dependency on the git command for Github repos.
  • Give better support for pull requests. From the Github HTML we can Scrape which branch the pull request is to be merged on.
• Textual HTTP interface.
• See permissions changes.
• Detect renames.
• Navigate diffed lines pressing 'n' and 'p' or similar.