Git: remove leading plus/minus from lines in diff

Question

My question is rather simple, though I have had no luck finding an answer.

I\'d like to remove the leading plus/minus symbols from each line in git diff

Answer 1

One option is to use sed to remove the undesired character from diff, while preserving the color:

git diff --color | sed -r "s/^([^-+ ]*)[-+ ]/\\1/" | less -r

(Note that you need to remove the leading space as well, as it is emitted by diff.)