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

From git help diff:

   --word-diff-regex=<regex>
       Use <regex> to decide what a word is, instead of considering runs of non-whitespace to be a word. Also implies
       --word-diff unless it was already enabled.

The following expression will make a word be any string of characters and underscore, or any non-whitespace character.

$ git diff --color-words --word-diff-regex='\\w+|[^[:space:]]'

Answer 2

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

--color-words[=<regex>]

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

A regex that works particularly well for me is:

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