Comment by apas

This is neat. In a similar fashion I'm a big fan of diff-highlight, [0] which post-processes the git diff and highlights with color the differing segments. It's super lightweight and part of the official git repo; I've saved it as a standalone #!/bin/perl in my $PATH and then included it in my .gitconfig:

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   log = /Users/user/.bin/diff-highlight | less
   show = /Users/user/.bin/diff-highlight | less
   diff = /Users/user/.bin/diff-highlight | less

[0]: https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/diff-highligh...