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September 25, 2018 16:54
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git diff -- use jq to pretty-print the json before diffing it
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| echo "*.json diff=json" >> ~/.gitattributes | |
| git config --global core.attributesfile ~/.gitattributes | |
| git config --global diff.json.textconv "jq '.' \$1" |
For those who need faster json parsing because of commits with many json files, I suggest json_xs instead of jq.
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textconvalready adds the filename as a parameter, so the$1is not needed and results in the JSON being printed twice. The following should work fine (adding--sort-keysfor reproducible diffs):git config --global diff.json.textconv "jq --sort-keys ."