Git: Diff per word or character

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By default git diff highlights whole lines as changes.

To diff on a word-by-word basis you can say:

git diff --color-words

To diff on a character-by-character basis you can say:

git diff --color-words=.
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Henning Koch
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added, removed, red, green
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Source code in this card is licensed under the MIT License.
Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2014-09-12 07:36)