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I highly suggest delta[1] for viewing diffs on the command line. It pretty much replicates GitHub's diff rendering, and is quite configurable.

[1]: https://github.com/dandavison/delta

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There's also diff-highlight[1] which is shipped with git itself and does almost the same thing, just possibly isn't as polished.

[1]: https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/diff-highligh...

I am very happy with delta.

I slightly tweaked the default config and it is great.

    [core]
     pager = delta
    [interactive]
     diffFilter = delta --color-only
    [delta]
     features = navigate
     hunk-header-style = omit
     line-numbers = true
     line-numbers-left-format = "{nm:>3} "
     line-numbers-right-format = "{np:>3} "
     max-line-length = 0

Tig - Text-mode interface for Git with basic vim bindings https://jonas.github.io/tig/

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