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by mklein994 2148 days ago
git diff --color-moved

This makes git diff highlight reindented or moved lines differently.

I use it to get diffs similar to when you pass -w, but with a bit more context.

It takes a bit of experimenting to keep it from looking like a fruit salad, but sometimes you get interesting results.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff#Documentation/git-diff.txt...

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If you use git diffs frequently, I recommend setting up delta: https://github.com/dandavison/delta
And I am working on implementing color-moved support https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/72