https://abbreviatory.com/tags/git-diff/ Recent content in git diff on Abbreviatory.com Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://abbreviatory.com/abbreviatory-0.4-reads-git-diffs-http-responses-and-directory-listings/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://abbreviatory.com/abbreviatory-0.4-reads-git-diffs-http-responses-and-directory-listings/ Test runs and logs aren’t the only big outputs a coding agent reads. It reads diffs all day, to review what it changed. It calls APIs with curl and gets back a wall of JSON. It runs find to see what’s in a repository, and gets ten thousand paths. Abbreviatory v0.4.0 reads all three. Each one gets rules of its own, because each one has its own idea of what matters. https://abbreviatory.com/how-to-see-the-shape-of-a-large-git-diff-before-reading-its-lines/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://abbreviatory.com/how-to-see-the-shape-of-a-large-git-diff-before-reading-its-lines/ Reviewing a big change starts with a question the diff doesn’t answer up front: what’s in here? git diff prints the first file’s first hunk and makes you scroll for the rest. A coding agent asked to review the same change reads all of it in order, and a 190 kB diff fills a good part of its context before it has seen the list of files. The diff in this example is a real one, Abbreviatory’s own changes from v0.