How to show space and tabs with git-diff

Question

I have the following output with git-diff.

- // sort list based on value    
+ // sort list based on value

How can I see easily see the num

Answer 1

I can think of multiple options:

• Configure Git to use colors: git config --global color.ui true. Whitespace at the end of lines is now highlighted in red.

• Pipe the output of git diff through cat: git diff | cat -A. The -A flag tells cat to show non-printable characters (e.g. ^I for tab).