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Currently it only shows the lines that are different. Is there any way to make it visualize per-character difference inside those lines, same way as it does in Github here or in gitk in "color words" mode? https://github.com/microsoft/dotnet/pull/1282/files/cadcf3de421c9eabc1eb2f538bf26d9be3c65a91

UPD this question is NOT about gitk, read the title

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  • https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bgitk%5D+word+diff – phd Jul 15 '21 at 19:45
  • As I understand, `git gui` just launches `gittk`. @phd However, this question should still be reopened. The linked answer explains only how to show **word** differences, which are extremely verbose and much harder to read than **character** differences, which are asked for here. The linked answer is equivalent to `--color-words`; This question wants `--color-words=.`. – Will Chen Apr 23 '22 at 18:36

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This is the best answer I've found (in fact I'm turning it on now for myself!) https://stackoverflow.com/a/58405511/1007707

It is only for command line (I checked it doesn't affect git-gui), so probably not as helpful for git-gui.

Basically follow the instructions that come with recent GIT packages, on my system in /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/diff-highlight/README

Also, git-gui is a little dated, you may want to try another tool like git-cola or similar?

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