homeport/dyff

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1876 stars · 100 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

dyff is a command-line diff tool for YAML files (and sometimes JSON) that reports only the parts of a file that changed, referencing each difference by its path in the document. It also provides sub-commands to convert between YAML and JSON while preserving key order.

Use cases

• diff two yaml files
• show what changed between kubernetes manifests with kubectl diff
• convert yaml to json
• convert json to yaml
• compare configuration files from files, urls, or stdin
• compact diff output for yaml config changes

When to choose

• you need human-readable, compact diffs of YAML or JSON config files
• you want a better diff backend for kubectl diff
• you need order-preserving YAML/JSON conversion
• you work with BOSH, Spruce, or go-patch style path syntaxes

When to avoid

• you need line-based diffs of arbitrary text files (use standard diff)
• you need semantic diffs of source code
• you need a GUI diff tool

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

developer-tools cli yaml json file-system developer-tools files cli cross-platform go yaml-diff json-diff kubectl-diff yaml-to-json json-to-yaml bosh configuration-diff command-line devops

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