Using an alternate diff algorithm in Git

Question

Because git is designed for source code, its default diff algorithm treats a line as the minimum indivisible unit.

I am trying to edit some mar

Answer 1

Here is an example of customising this (from this question). As a default, --word-diff assumes a word to be a string of non-whitespace characters. The following command will consider a word consist of one of the following:

1. A string of alpha-numeric characters and underscores
2. A single non-character

The command:

git diff --color-words --word-diff-regex='[A-z0-9_]+|[^[:space:]]'