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My favorite "took me a long time to discover" Git tweak is to use difft for diffs:

https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/

An alternative tool that also improves git diff functionality is Delta:

(personally I think Difftastic's treesitter based approach is superior to Delta, yet I always appreciate it when people link alternatives when discussing apps so thought I'd add this for completeness' sake)

Couldn't get it to work, constant permission denied errors

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