Git - Color words excluding {}

Question

I am using git with --color-words to view my diff. In my diff, it shows that I removed

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Answer 1

Since you already use --color-words, you don't need to supply --word-diff-regex separately, the first option accepts a regex:

--color-words[=]

Equivalent to --word-diff=color plus --word-diff-regex= (if a regex was specified).

A regex that works particularly well for me is:

$ git diff --color-words='\w+|.'