From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:13:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Treating similar blank lines between hunks as part of the hunks
Message-ID: <20100827021310.GA23924@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikZFYSSNMENC5SmKSVt49a+WxXdO0mP=V7Mbi-Q@mail.gmail.com>

Timur Tabi wrote:

> git-diff will do this:
> 
>  A
> -B
> -C
> +F
> +G
> 
> -D
> +H
>  E
> 
> Instead, I would prefer it did this:
> 
>  A
> -B
> -C
> -
> -D
> +F
> +G
> +
> +H
> E
> 
> This second diff is easier to read, especially when the number of
> hunks is large, but the size of each hunk is small.  This can happen
> in source code when one function is replaced with a completely
> different function.

Not sure if it would help in your example, but have you tried
"git diff --patience"?