Installation
You can download an executable for your system: Linux (glibc) | Linux (musl) | MacOS | Windows | All
Alternatively you can install delta using a package manager: see repology.org/git-delta.
Note that the package is often called git-delta, but the executable installed is called delta. Here is a quick summary for selected package managers:
| Arch Linux | pacman -S git-delta |
| Cargo | cargo install git-delta |
| Fedora | dnf install git-delta |
| FreeBSD | pkg install git-delta |
| Gentoo | emerge dev-util/git-delta |
| Homebrew | brew install git-delta |
| MacPorts | port install git-delta |
| Nix | nix-env -iA nixpkgs.delta
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| OpenBSD | pkg_add delta |
| openSUSE | zypper install git-delta
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| Void Linux | xbps-install -S delta
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| Windows (Chocolatey) | choco install delta |
| Windows (Scoop) | scoop install delta |
| Windows (Winget) | winget install dandavison.delta |
| Debian / Ubuntu |
dpkg -i file.deb
.deb files are on the releases page. If you are using Ubuntu <= 19.10 or are mixing apt sources, please read #504. |
| conda |
conda install git-delta -c conda-forge
mamba install git-delta -c conda-forge
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Users of older MacOS versions (e.g. 10.11 El Capitan) should install using Homebrew, Cargo, or MacPorts: the binaries on the release page will not work.
Behind the scenes, delta uses less for paging.
It's important to have a reasonably recent version of less installed.
On MacOS, install less from Homebrew. For Windows, see Using Delta on Windows.