I want to compare two commits in Gitlab and get the response in .diff format.
I tried the APIs listed in Gitlab doc https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/repositories.html#compare-branches-tags-or-commits. But it only returns the diff in JSON format.
How can I get the data in the git diff format?
That was initially requested in issue 23285 five years ago (Oct. 2016):
GitHub seems have undocumented ways to download the unified diff file before create a pull request, that is: by add "
.diff" or ".patch" suffix when comparing two branches.But GitLab didn't have that feature yet.
That particular feature is requested in issue 217206.
Issue 20688 suggests:
The only possible workaround, I do right now is to get the data from compare API, and then use grep to get diff, and append all of them.
