Diffs and patches

A diff opens per file, with old and new line numbers, word-level changes and collapsed context.

A .diff or .patch file opens as a review view rendered by Pierre Diffs. Each changed file gets its own section with its status (added, deleted, renamed or modified), its + and − counts, and old and new line numbers. Changed words are marked within each line, and unchanged stretches collapse.

When a diff touches more than one file, an index at the top jumps to each one.

git diff | jalco-drop -n fix.diff -e 7d
git diff main...HEAD | jalco-drop -n review.diff
git format-patch -1 --stdout | jalco-drop -n fix.patch

The name matters. Piped without -n, a diff uploads as paste.txt and opens as plain text.

Diffs from git diff and plain diff -u both work. One with more than 20,000 changed lines opens as highlighted code instead.

Source and raw

Source in the ... menu, or ?view=source on the link, shows the diff as text. The raw file is at /<slug>/<file name>, so git apply can read it straight from the link:

curl -s https://drop.example.com/k3x9q2m8vt/fix.diff | git apply