I agree that the patience diff algorithm generally produces better results, but you don’t need the patdiff tool for that. You can configure Git’s own diffs to use patience: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config...

I see that patdiff also provides word-level diffing. You could instead get that feature with `git diff --word-diff` or Delta (https://github.com/dandavison/delta).