The diff-highlight can be a nicer way to review diffs. It tries to highlight changes in a line rather than just display the before/afters. Here's a simple way to setup a simple alias so you can do
git d to get the alternate diff.
// download the diff highlight script from github and put it somewhere relevant (cwd)
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight > diff-highlight
chmod +x diff-highlight
// add the alias to the global git config
nano ~/.gitconfig
This is what you add in that config:
[alias]
d = !git diff --color | ~/apps/diff-highlight | more
You can also set it as the default:
[core]
pager = diff-highlight | more
Source:
http://theunixtoolbox.com/git-diff-highlight/