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David BarskyandLukas Wirth daf10c4c76 cli: Teach --diff to recurse into directories and add a MultiDiffView (#45131)
This branch:
1. teaches `--diff `command line option to to recurse into folders if
provided.
2. Adds a `MultiDiffView` that shows _all_ changed files in a single,
scrollable view.

This is necessary to provide a smooth user experience for `jj` and Zed
users who wish to use Zed as their jj difftool.

I'm not fully sure how this change interacts with
https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/44936, or what plans y'all
have in mind.

Here's a screenshot of the resulting behavior:

<img width="1090" height="950" alt="Screenshot 2025-12-17 at 9 10 52 AM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8efd09b4-974f-4059-9f94-539c484c6d4a"
/>

I setup zed to handle jj diffs by adding the following to my jj config:

```toml
[aliases]
zdiff = ["diff", "--tool", "zed"]

[merge-tools.zed]
program = "/Users/dbarsky/Developer/zed/target/debug/cli"
# omit diff-invocation-mode to keep the default (JJ passes two dirs)
diff-args = [
  "--zed", "/Users/dbarsky/Developer/zed/target/debug/zed",
  "--wait",
  "--new",
  "--diff",
  "$left",
  "$right",
]
```

Release Notes:

- `--diff`, if provided with folders instead of files, will recurse into
those directories.
- Added a `MultiDiffView`, which will show all changed files within a
single, scrollable view.

**AI Disclosure**: Pretty much all of this code was written using Codex
with GPT-5.1-Codex. I edited by hand and tested this.

---------

Co-authored-by: Lukas Wirth <lukas@zed.dev>
2026-01-30 10:14:36 +01:00

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Rust

use collections::HashMap;
pub use ipc_channel::ipc;
use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub struct IpcHandshake {
pub requests: ipc::IpcSender<CliRequest>,
pub responses: ipc::IpcReceiver<CliResponse>,
}
#[derive(Debug, Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub enum CliRequest {
Open {
paths: Vec<String>,
urls: Vec<String>,
diff_paths: Vec<[String; 2]>,
diff_all: bool,
wsl: Option<String>,
wait: bool,
open_new_workspace: Option<bool>,
reuse: bool,
env: Option<HashMap<String, String>>,
user_data_dir: Option<String>,
},
}
#[derive(Debug, Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub enum CliResponse {
Ping,
Stdout { message: String },
Stderr { message: String },
Exit { status: i32 },
}
/// When Zed started not as an *.app but as a binary (e.g. local development),
/// there's a possibility to tell it to behave "regularly".
pub const FORCE_CLI_MODE_ENV_VAR_NAME: &str = "ZED_FORCE_CLI_MODE";