How to improve git's diff highlighting?

Question

The output of git diff is optimized for code which tends to be one statement per line whereas text can (if authors like me are too lazy to use line breaks) caus

Answer 1

Also worth mentioning is diffr. It's written in Rust and uses Myers longest common subsequence algorithm. Compared to git's diff-highlight it gives better results, see:

git's diff-highlight:

diffr:

Once installed, making use of it is similar to that of diff-highlight, i.e. edit ~/.gitconfig, and add to the [pager] section following:

[pager]
    log  = diffr | less
    show = diffr | less
    diff = diffr | less