[amigoingtodie]

What about code being 'deleted' that git diff does not catch?

Is there a recommended external diff tool that ameliorates these issues?

[hawski]

Maybe cat -v?

    $ git diff | cat -v

However it's considered harmful: http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/ ;)

[UncleEntity]

or

git diff > tmp.diff

and open with a text editor?

[jwilk]

  git diff | less -U

But the you lose all the colors.