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Normally diffs are done line by line. However git diff --word-diff allows word diffing. The inital commit had a misspelling of the word fleece. However a normal git diff makes this change hard to see as it highlights lines that have changed (in this case the whole poem is on one line).
tom@tom-All-Series:~/hacking/git-test$ git diff diff --git a/mary-lamb.md b/mary-lamb.md index e803864..5781cd7 100644 --- a/mary-lamb.md +++ b/mary-lamb.md @@ -1 +1 @@ -Mary had a little lamb. Little lamb. Little lamb. Marry had a little lamb, his flece was white as snow. +Mary had a little lamb. Little lamb. Little lamb. Marry had a little lamb, his fleece was white as snow.
Here is the output using word-diff
tom@tom-All-Series:~/hacking/git-test$ git diff --word-diff diff --git a/mary-lamb.md b/mary-lamb.md index e803864..5781cd7 100644 --- a/mary-lamb.md +++ b/mary-lamb.md @@ -1 +1 @@ Mary had a little lamb. Little lamb. Little lamb. Marry had a little lamb, his [-flece-]{+fleece+} was white as snow.
Tip thanks to Harry Roberts @csswizardry
