How to get diff working like git-diff?

Question

I like the output formatting of git diff. The color and the +/- representation of changes between lines is easier to read than GNU di

Answer 1

Since bat has nice colorizing, I've tested if that works with diff too and surprisingly it worked really well out of the box.

$ diff file1 file2 | bat or $ diff -u file1 file2 | bat

So I suppose you could make a function like this below to be more efficient:

function bdiff () { diff -u $@ | bat;}