cli: Teach `--diff` to recurse into directories and add a `MultiDiffView` (#45131)
This branch:
1. teaches `--diff `command line option to to recurse into folders if
provided.
2. Adds a `MultiDiffView` that shows _all_ changed files in a single,
scrollable view.
This is necessary to provide a smooth user experience for `jj` and Zed
users who wish to use Zed as their jj difftool.
I'm not fully sure how this change interacts with
https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/44936, or what plans y'all
have in mind.
Here's a screenshot of the resulting behavior:
<img width="1090" height="950" alt="Screenshot 2025-12-17 at 9 10 52 AM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8efd09b4-974f-4059-9f94-539c484c6d4a"
/>
I setup zed to handle jj diffs by adding the following to my jj config:
```toml
[aliases]
zdiff = ["diff", "--tool", "zed"]
[merge-tools.zed]
program = "/Users/dbarsky/Developer/zed/target/debug/cli"
# omit diff-invocation-mode to keep the default (JJ passes two dirs)
diff-args = [
"--zed", "/Users/dbarsky/Developer/zed/target/debug/zed",
"--wait",
"--new",
"--diff",
"$left",
"$right",
]
```
Release Notes:
- `--diff`, if provided with folders instead of files, will recurse into
those directories.
- Added a `MultiDiffView`, which will show all changed files within a
single, scrollable view.
**AI Disclosure**: Pretty much all of this code was written using Codex
with GPT-5.1-Codex. I edited by hand and tested this.
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Co-authored-by: Lukas Wirth <lukas@zed.dev>
185a80a21bDavid Barsky committed on 1/30/2026, 9:14:36 AM· committed by GitHubparent7053561