Re: Feature Request: Add diff.word-diff <mode> and perhaps diff.word-diff-regex <regex> configuration options to enable always using word-diffs in git diff

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] writes:

On Sat, Apr 14 2018, Doron Behar wrote:

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I've just came across the wonderful command line option for `git diff`:
`--word-diff`. It could be great to have a configuration option that
will enable this feature by default when running `git diff`.

Do you know you can do:

    git config --global alias.wdiff "diff --word-diff"

Correct, but it is a "you could instead do it this way" that is not
accompanied by a "you do not want to do what you said you want to
because.." answer.  Having the latter is often helpful to learn why
the suggestion is actually not a mere "you could" but is a "you are
better off doing it this way".

Even though it is discouraged, people script using the Porcelain
"git diff" command, and once users of such a configuration variable
is used in Doron's fork of Git, those scripts will break for them.

Using alias like you showed won't have such a problem.