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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"
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triplef commented Aug 19, 2021

textconv already adds the filename as a parameter, so the $1 is not needed and results in the JSON being printed twice. The following should work fine (adding --sort-keys for reproducible diffs):

git config --global diff.json.textconv "jq --sort-keys ."

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senhalil commented Feb 1, 2022

For those who need faster json parsing because of commits with many json files, I suggest json_xs instead of jq.

https://gist.github.com/senhalil/fd5e06913523cb9d45b3123ebd186573?permalink_comment_id=4049199#gistcomment-4049199

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