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Comment by eadler | Hacker News Reader

`git diff --word-diff` is wonderful for this

  diff --git 1/old 2/new
  index 7164d6e..61a276c 100644
  --- 1/old
  +++ 2/new
  @@ -1 +1 @@
  I am {+not+} studying tonight

Wow, why isn’t this the default?!

git diff by default outputs valid patch files that you can feed to patch out git apply.

--word-diff does not

Kernel development involves working with patches a lot, so it made sense to default to that, and --word-diff was added later anyway.

Ah, makes sense, thanks for the explanation.

I’ll have to create an alias for my use!