If you don't want your diff so fancy (pun intended, and I'm sorry) but you still want the inline highlights, the script comes with git (https://github.com/git/g

If you don't want your diff so fancy (pun intended, and I'm sorry) but you still want the inline highlights, the script comes with git (https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/diff-highlight https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/diff-highligh...): ln -sf "$(brew --prefix)/share/git-core/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight" ~/bin/diff-highlight and add to .gitconfig [pager] log = diff-highlight | less show = diff-highlight | less diff = diff-highlight | less