On github, we can check diffs of segments. It's very convinient when an old line and a new line are very similar.
I want to adopt this function to git command on my local pc.The diff-highlight makes it and looks like the above screenshot.
diff-highlight is perl script and maintained in the git project.
https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/diff-highlight
At first, Download this script in /usr/local/bin, and give execute permission.
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight
chmod 755 diff-highlight
You can try out the diff-highlight program with
git log -p --color | diff-highlight
I want to use it all the time, I write following configuration in .gitconfig file.
[pager] log = diff-highlight | less show = diff-highlight | less diff = diff-highlight | less
