Can delta show patch files?

[NightMachinery]

Can delta show patch files? (produced by git format-patch ...)

[NightMachinery]

cat file.patch | delta works.

[Kr1ss-XD]

Yes, absolutely. You can provide any kind of unified diff output to its stdin, e.g.

delta <file.patch

or

git format-patch --stdout HEAD^ | delta

If you have something in your git config like :

[pager]
	format-patch = delta

then you can also just

git format-patch --stdout HEAD^

without the explicit pipe.