Git-diff to HTML

Question

Hi,

I'm looking for a way to produce HTML files from a git-diff output, preferably using python. I've been looking at http://docs.python.org/library/difflib.html without being able to figure out how to use the git-diff output as an input.

Any clue?

Many thanks

Answer 1

You could use the pygments commandline script to get a syntax highligthed HTML output.

Installation:

$ easy_install Pygments

Example:

$ git diff HEAD^1 > last.diff
$ pygmentize -f html -O full,style=trac -l diff -o last.diff.html last.diff

$ # mac only
$ open last.diff.html

Or shorter:

$ git diff | pygmentize -f html -O full,style=emacs -l diff

P.S. To see all available styles, try:

$ pygmentize -L styles