In long diffs, it can become impossible to spot small changes in larger blocks of moved code. This may be either a method that was moved from the top to the bottom of a file, or a long test file that was split in many.
Fortunately, Git offers a special highlighting mode that directs the reader's attention to relevant code parts:
git diff --color-moved=dimmed-zebra
It will dim lines that were moved around without changes, and highlight changed lines.
To easily use dimmed-zebra mode, configure an alias:
# ~/.gitconfig
[alias]
dz = diff --color-moved=dimmed-zebra
Example taken
from Stackoverflow
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Posted by Dominik Schöler to makandra dev (2021-01-04 07:06)