textproc/patdiff 0.16.1 FreeBSD

Colored patience diffs for the discerning developer

System: FreeBSD
Repository: FreeBSD ports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Port added: 2026-10-09
Last update: 2026-10-09
Commit: a8fe902da5
License: MIT
Categories: textproc
Package size: 3147.5 KiB, 11172.0 KiB installed

Description

Patdiff is an OCaml implementation of Bram Cohen's patience diff algorithm, with a few extra conveniences for comparing code and configuration files:

outputs plain ASCII, ANSI color codes, or HTML
optional semantic diffing of numbers (float tolerance)
good word-level diffing out of the box
recursive diffing of directories
extensively configurable output (markers, colors, location format, context)
whitespace-aware diffing

A wrapper script, patdiff-git-wrapper, lets git use patdiff as its external diff tool.

Install

Binary package:

pkg install patdiff

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/textproc/patdiff/ && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	patdiff>0:textproc/patdiff

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repository	aarch64	amd64	armv6	armv7	i386
FreeBSD:14:latest	0.16.1	0.16.1	-	-	0.16.1
FreeBSD:14:quarterly	-	-	n/a	-	-
FreeBSD:15:latest	0.16.1	0.16.1	n/a	-	-
FreeBSD:15:quarterly	-	-	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:16:latest	-	0.16.1	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:16:quarterly	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Build 11

bash : shells/bash
${LOCALBASE}/${OCAML_SITELIBDIR}/base/META : devel/ocaml-base
${LOCALBASE}/${OCAML_SITELIBDIR}/ppx_compare/META : devel/ocaml-ppx_compare
${LOCALBASE}/${OCAML_SITELIBDIR}/ppx_hash/META : devel/ocaml-ppx_hash
${LOCALBASE}/${OCAML_SITELIBDIR}/ppx_optcomp/META : devel/ocaml-ppx_optcomp
${LOCALBASE}/${OCAML_SITELIBDIR}/ppx_sexp_conv/META : devel/ocaml-ppx_sexp_conv
${LOCALBASE}/${OCAML_SITELIBDIR}/ppxlib/META : devel/ocaml-ppxlib
${LOCALBASE}/${OCAML_SITELIBDIR}/re/META : devel/ocaml-re
${LOCALBASE}/${OCAML_SITELIBDIR}/sexplib/META : devel/ocaml-sexplib
${LOCALBASE}/${OCAML_SITELIBDIR}/sexplib0/META : devel/ocaml-sexplib0
${LOCALBASE}/${OCAML_SITELIBDIR}/stdio/META : devel/ocaml-stdio

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

Build dependencies 38

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

USES: ocaml:build,dune
Service scripts: none

Files

distinfo 50

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Commit history 1

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-10-09

a8fe902da5

Dave Cottlehuber

textproc/patdiff: NEW PORT - diff for the discerning developer

Patdiff is an OCaml implementation of Bram Cohen's patience difference algorithm, with a few extra conveniences for comparing code and config files: - gorgeous coloured patience diffs with word-level refinements - outputs plain ASCII, ANSI color codes, or HTML - optional semantic diffing of numbers - good word-level diffing out of the box - recursive diffing of directories - extensively configurable output (markers, colors, location format, context) - whitespace-aware diffing Sponsored by: SkunkWerks, GmbH