Catalog app · RISC-V VM

Run delta in the browser

A pager for git and diff output with syntax highlighting, word-level changes and side-by-side view.

Try it live

Nothing is downloaded until you press Run.

catalog app

Check the installed delta build

Installs delta 0.19.2 from the signed catalog (every chunk is verified before it is written), then runs the commands below in the VM's shell.

bash

delta --version
delta --help | head -n 3

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Expected output

$ delta --version
delta 0.19.2
$ delta --help | head -n 3
A viewer for git and diff output

Usage: delta [OPTIONS] [MINUS_FILE] [PLUS_FILE]

What it is

delta (git-delta) reformats unified diffs: it highlights the code with the language's syntax, marks the exact words that changed within a line, and can show side-by-side views with line numbers. It is usually configured as git's pager.

Package facts

version: 0.19.2
runs on: RISC-V VM (elf-app, riscv64gc-linux-musl)
download: 3.3 MB compressed · 1 file
command: delta
requires: nothing else — a static binary
license: MIT (upstream)
upstream: github.com/dandavison/delta
categories: Text
collections: Git workflow
catalog: generation 12, Ed25519-signed

Install and run it from your page

With the SDK, installApp resolves delta in the signed index, fetches its content-addressed chunks from the CDN, verifies each one and writes the files into the VM. Details in Installing catalog apps.

javascript

import { createNano } from "@userland-run/nano-sdk";

const nano = await createNano({ image: { wasm: "/nano/console.wasm" }, ramMB: 512 });
await nano.installApp("delta"); // signature-verified, cached in OPFS

const r = await nano.shExec("delta --version");
console.log(r.stdout);

Typical usage of the upstream command-line tool: