Is this repo active ?

[iamkhalidbashir]

Last commit was 2 years ago

[dlyongemallo]

@sindrets Can you please answer the question?

FYI for anyone interested I have a fork of this repo with all fixes applied that I'm aware of.

[shmerl]

This repo is clearly not active. I'm not sure if there are active forks that generally replace it though, so I had to make a fork for handling scenarios without custom fonts better too.

@dlyongemallo: Are fixes your own or you sourced them from different places?

[dlyongemallo]

Are fixes your own or you sourced them from different places?

They were (or started out as) mostly from this repo. I literally just forked this repo and then applied every open PR and suggested fix in open issues. I then had to apply some fixes of my own on top, because of conflicts between the different fixes or they were incomplete or introduced new issues.

I can merge your changes for handling scenarios without custom fonts, if you send a PR against my work. (At this point, sending a PR against the original repo will probably have all kinds of merge conflicts with my fork.)

[dlyongemallo]

@shmerl Can you see if my fork fixes your icon issue (#579)? There was a code change there already to always show folder icons, since they are plain text strings set in the user's config (and don't depend on icon fonts).

[shmerl]

Ah, good point. I'll give your fork a try when I have a chance.

[mmirus]

@dlyongemallo thank you so much for your fork. diffview is a huge part of my workflow and I've never found a better replacement, but it was feeling worse and worse to use with errors and slowdowns. So for, your fork just makes it feel good again. Something I can enjoy and not worry or think about.

[finallyblueskies]

@dlyongemallo I recently discovered diffview.nvim and really enjoyed using it. I was in between a rock and a hard place with all the bugs until I found your repo. Thanks for your work man

[shmerl]

@dlyongemallo: Just tested your fork, it does fix the icons issue, thanks!

[shmerl]

@dlyongemallo: In your fork, it started adding colors in the files pane which I don't think the original did. Like added / removed styling to number of changes I guess? And something also in the signs column looks different than before, too noisy for me. Is that configurable?

[dlyongemallo]

@shmerl I've filed dlyongemallo#70 about your request. Can you add more specific details about what's changed over there? Anything which changed would've been the result of a feature request or PR in this (sindrets) repo. But I can add options to configure the appearance, if they don't already exist.

[shmerl]

I'll do some more focused comparisons and will comment.