Re:Jd – JSON Diff and Patch
by josephburnett on Monday September 09, 2024 @01:19PM
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> couldn't this also be have been called jdiff? I feel like the two-letter tool name is exercising developer memory more than strictly required.
Yeah, in retrospect I should have given this a longer name. I was going for a natural fit with `jq`. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> I wonder if this is much better than difftastic that is more general purpose, but tree-aware?
There are quite a few good tree-aware JSON diff tools out there. But I wanted one that could also be used for patching. I've tried to maintain the invariant that all diffs can be applied as patches without losing anything. And I also wanted better set (and multi-set) semantics, since the ordering of JSON arrays so often isn't important.
Yeah, in retrospect I should have given this a longer name. I was going for a natural fit with `jq`. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> I wonder if this is much better than difftastic that is more general purpose, but tree-aware?
There are quite a few good tree-aware JSON diff tools out there. But I wanted one that could also be used for patching. I've tried to maintain the invariant that all diffs can be applied as patches without losing anything. And I also wanted better set (and multi-set) semantics, since the ordering of JSON arrays so often isn't important.