GitHub - Ataraxy-Labs/sem: Semantic version control CLI. Entity-level diff, blame, graph, and impact analysis for code. 16 languages via tree-sitter.

sem diff

┌─ src/auth/login.ts ──────────────────────────────────
│
│  ⊕ function  validateToken          [added]
│  ∆ function  authenticateUser       [modified]
│  ⊖ function  legacyAuth             [deleted]
│
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────

┌─ config/database.yml ─────────────────────────────────
│
│  ∆ property  production.pool_size   [modified]
│    - 5
│    + 20
│
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Summary: 1 added, 1 modified, 1 deleted across 2 files

git clone https://github.com/Ataraxy-Labs/sem
cd sem/crates
cargo install --path sem-cli

# Semantic diff of working changes
sem diff

# Staged changes only
sem diff --staged

# Specific commit
sem diff --commit abc1234

# Commit range
sem diff --from HEAD~5 --to HEAD

# JSON output (for AI agents, CI pipelines)
sem diff --format json

# Compare any two files (no git repo needed)
sem diff file1.ts file2.ts

# Read file changes from stdin (no git repo needed)
echo '[{"filePath":"src/main.rs","status":"modified","beforeContent":"...","afterContent":"..."}]' \
  | sem diff --stdin --format json

# Only specific file types
sem diff --file-exts .py .rs

# Entity dependency graph
sem graph

# Impact analysis (what breaks if this entity changes?)
sem impact validateToken

# Entity-level blame
sem blame src/auth.ts

{
  "summary": {
    "fileCount": 2,
    "added": 1,
    "modified": 1,
    "deleted": 1,
    "total": 3
  },
  "changes": [
    {
      "entityId": "src/auth.ts::function::validateToken",
      "changeType": "added",
      "entityType": "function",
      "entityName": "validateToken",
      "filePath": "src/auth.ts"
    }
  ]
}

[dependencies]
sem-core = { git = "https://github.com/Ataraxy-Labs/sem", version = "0.3" }