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With the latest git (2.9.0) you can now apparently setup diffs which weren’t possible before.

I use so-fancy/diff-so-fancy to get diffs

Without the +/- at the beginning of each line
Clear headers between different files in a diff
Clean headers describing where the file the diff is
Highlights of what changed on that line

And with the latest version of git the diff engine is smarter with blocks so it won’t think you inserted a new if/for in the middle of an existing one.

To install:

brew update
brew install git # 2.9.0+
brew install diff-so-fancy
git config --global core.pager "diff-so-fancy | less --tabs=4 -RFX"

Better Diffs with Git 2.9.0

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