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You'll probably enjoy the patience or histogram diff algorithms. See https://luppeng.wordpress.com/2020/10/10/when-to-use-each-of-the-git-diff-algorithms/ https://luppeng.wordpress.com/2020/10/10/when-to-use-each-of... for more. [diff] algorithm = "histogram" You can also teach git to always show e.g. function names in the diff hunk heading. For example, to always show previous Markdown heading: ~/.config/git/config [diff "markdown"] xfuncname = "^(#+\\s*.*)" ~/.config/git/attributes *.md diff=markdown whitespace=-blank-at-eol