JQuery Visual Diff Plugin

Question

is there a JQuery visual diff plugin that anybody knows about. Something like you would see on GitHub, BitBucket, or any standard source control site?

I have found t

Answer 1

https://code.google.com/p/google-diff-match-patch/ is Google's library for diff. They have implementation for Java, JavaScript, Dart, C++, C#, Objective C, Lua and Python.

I have used it, its pretty neat and powerful.

Answer 2

I think you should consider doing a home made plugin, to do the Visual thing.

There is a jquery plugin which allow you to do $diff comparison like this one :

By using this you get a usable collection of elements:

$.diff(obj1, obj2) return  {mod: ..., add: ..., del: ...}

You could use jsfiddle to prototype your own plugin (http://jsfiddle.net/)

Answer 3

This is long since done, but for posterity:

https://github.com/arnab/jQuery.PrettyTextDiff