Home Manager Diff

Home Manager Diff (hmd) is a wrapper around nvd, that simplifies the process of comparing different Home-Manager generations. It also provides an activation script that runs hmd during home-manager switch, showing the differences between the latest and current generations.

Warning Only works with standalone Home-Manager installation at the moment.

Installation

In your flake.nix:

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
    home-manager.url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
    home-manager-diff.url = "github:pedorich-n/home-manager-diff";
  };

  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, home-manager, home-manager-diff }: {
    homeConfigurations.example = home-manager.lib.homeManagerConfiguration {
        ...
        modules = [
            home-manager-diff.hmModules.default
            ./configuration.nix
        ];
    };
  };
}

configuration.nix:

{...}: {
    programs.hmd = {
      enable = true;
      runOnSwitch = true; # enabled by default
    };
}

Usage

After the installation, simply run home-manager switch as usual. HMD will automatically show the differences between the latest and current generations.

You can also run hmd from CLI to compare any two Home-Manager generations.

Demo

Here's an example what hmd prints out on a home-manager switch. In this generation neovim was added and wslu removed:

And here's ane example of comparing any two Home-Manager generations using hmd: