When I first tried it out, I quickly bounced off of it, because the side-by-side view really doesn’t work for me. Feels like my eyes need to travel for miles to put deletions and additions together.
There is an inline-layout, though, which can be activated by setting the environment variable INLINE to “y”. I’ve been told that’s still experimental, but works well enough for me so far.
Edit: Just saw that the newest release has an explicit CLI-flag:
difft --display inlineI personally find it useful in many cases. I personally find the classic diff harder to reason about due to the overhead of “>>>>>>” and “<<<<<<”. Having it side by side with color really helps me.
But i understand your point and i’m glad difftastic supports both ;)
Meld Merge is hands down the best merge tool.
