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by senknvd 818 days ago
There is a --word-diff flag in git diff. It can also be customized using --word-diff-regex to possibly match sentences.
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I see. From the docs [1]

    --word-diff-regex=<regex> 

      ... A match that contains a newline is silently truncated(!) at the newline.
If I understand this correctly, if you use newlines inside a sentence (if you are writing a fixed width document, for example), this won't work.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff

pipe through "fmt -sw999999999999" first