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Comment by g4zj | Hacker News Reader

I've never knowingly used a language-aware diff tool before, but I wouldn't mind the option. I think it would come in handy on occasion.

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Personally I have `git difft` aliased to `difft --display side-by-side`, so it's one extra character for a semantic diffing tool (for me, Difftastic).

Because I am silly I have

    dit () {
        verb="$1"
        shift 1
        GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF=difft git $verb --ext-diff $@
    }

it works for `dit d` and `dit show HEAD` but it fails on `dit stash show -p stash@{0}`

Thanks for mentioning Difftastic. It looks very interesting! I'll give it a try.

Never even used `diff -p`? That's been in diff for many decades.

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