Perhaps "git diff --word-diff" helps? I don't see a similar option for "git show" though and that seems important :( I think you're right: if the diff-viewing

Perhaps "git diff --word-diff" helps? I don't see a similar option for "git show" though and that seems important :( I think you're right: if the diff-viewing infrastructure was abstracted (plugin?) it could do this and more (eg word-diff-by-paragraph, image-diff).