nmattia/niv

Present a diff of the update before writing it to file

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#75 opened on Jun 12, 2019

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I'd like to have niv produce a (git-like) diff of the PackageSpec before it's written to file. This could be a CLI opt like niv update --dry-run or niv update --give-choice.

Note: we're gonna run into some difficulties if #73 is implemented.

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Understand how niv currently updates the package spec and where to inject the diff display. Consider using a library like 'Diff' to compute the differences.
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