# delta

A syntax-highlighting pager for git diff, grep, and blame output. Drop it into your gitconfig as `core.pager` and every diff, log, show, and blame command gets language-aware highlighting, word-level change detection, and optional side-by-side view — without changing how you use git.

**Setup** — add to `~/.gitconfig`:

```gitconfig
[core]
    pager = delta

[interactive]
    diffFilter = delta --color-only

[delta]
    navigate = true
    dark = true
    side-by-side = true
    line-numbers = true

[merge]
    conflictStyle = zdiff3
```

**What it does beyond plain git diff:**
- Syntax highlighting using bat's theme library (all bat themes work)
- Word-level diff highlighting via Levenshtein edit inference — shows exactly which characters changed within a line
- Side-by-side view with automatic line wrapping
- Line numbers
- `n`/`N` navigation between files in large diffs or between commits in `log -p`
- Improved merge conflict display
- Syntax-highlighted `git blame` with hyperlinks to the hosting provider (GitHub, GitLab, SourceHut, Codeberg)
- Syntax-highlighted grep output from `rg`, `git grep`, `grep`
- Support for git's `--color-moved`
- Copy-friendly: `+`/`-` markers are removed by default so you can copy code directly from diffs
- Commit hashes and file paths as clickable terminal hyperlinks
- Automatic light/dark detection
- Emulation modes for `diff-highlight` and `diff-so-fancy`

Also handles plain unified diff output (not just git), so you can pipe any `diff` through it.

**Install:** package is called `git-delta` in most package managers (`brew install git-delta`, `apt install git-delta`), but the binary is just `delta`.

**Repo:** https://github.com/dandavison/delta — 30k stars, MIT license.