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Is there a way to compare 2 GitHub repositories?


I'm trying to make my own chromium fork so that I can make a browser that suits my needs, but I don't exactly know where to start.

I know that there are many chromium forks out there, so I was going to try and compare 2 GitHub repositories, where one of the repositories would be Chromium, and the other would be Brave so that I would see what Brave changed from chromium so that I would be able to change things like the branding or UI, but I don't know how to compare 2 GitHub repositories.

I've looked around, but none of them are working, or some will work, but they are a little too complicated.
Can someone help me out?


Solution

  • One way would be to clone both repositories locally, and then use Git or a third-party file comparison tool (Winmerge on Windows, kdiff3, ...) to compare the latest codebase from their respective default branch (master or main)

    Git itself can show you the differences with:

    cd /path/to/repos1
    git --work-tree=../repo2 diff