How do you customize the color of the diff header in git diff?

Question

When I run git diff, the header part of each diff comes out in white text. Since I\'m using a light background it is hard to read, so I want to change it.

Answer 1

Try setting color.diff.meta, e.g.

git config --global color.diff.meta blue

or by manually editing the configuration file

[color "diff"]
    meta = blue

You can look through the various color. settings in the git-config reference for more possible settings. The color.diff.meta setting is listed here:

color.diff.
Use customized color for diff colorization. specifies which part of the patch to use the specified color, and is one of plain (context text), meta (metainformation), frag (hunk header), func (function in hunk header), old (removed lines), new (added lines), commit (commit headers), or whitespace (highlighting whitespace errors). The values of these variables may be specified as in color.branch..