git diff algorithm that does not rip functions apart? (language-aware diff)

Question

Is it possible to configure git diff to respect indentation and syntax? I am not talking about ignoring indentation and spaces, but rather to use blank lines, indentation le

Answer 1

First of all use a more sophisticated diff algorithm like:

git config --global diff.algorithm histogram

Then there are also semantic diff tools like https://github.com/GumTreeDiff/gumtree whose algorithm has also been implemented in clang-diff: https://github.com/krobelus/clang-diff-playground