# ivankovic/omnidiff

> A content-aware diff tool that picks a type-specific algorithm per file (code via AST, images, fonts, PDFs, archives) and shows results in a TUI, browser, or headless mode. It integrates with git difftool and editors like VS Code and Neovim.

- Magnitude: 3.7 out of 10 — Breakout
- Stars: 129 total · +50 stars measured 2026-11-01, 16:33–18:38 UTC, ≈ 61 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Rust · Created: 2025-10-17 · Last push: 2026-11-01
- GitHub: https://github.com/ivankovic/omnidiff · Homepage: https://ivankovic.github.io/omnidiff/showcase/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/ivankovic/omnidiff

## Useful for

- Review a code change in the TUI with function context shown for each hunk
- Wire OmniDiff into git difftool to replace the default diff viewer
- Run headless mode in CI to get a plain-text diff or JSON output

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-01 (UTC), 16:33–18:38: 79 → 129 stars (+50). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +61 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 0 per day.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust” — 41 points, 5 h ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 3
- Issues and pull requests: 57
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 9 per day
- Usual pace: 1 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 24
- Latest release: v0.3.0 (2026-11-01)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-03 … 2026-11-01: 3, 1, 0, 2, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 50

## Hacker News

- Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust — 41 points, 22 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50325253

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-01 18:47 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.