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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> With this option, the changed words are shown inline. For example,
> if a file containing "This is foo" is changed to "This is bar", the diff
> will now show "This is " in plain text, "foo" in red, and "bar" in green.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>

This looks sooooooooooo strange (and I do not particularly like
colours, so I am biased).  We might want to disable it when the
output would not be colored under diff.color = auto, at least,
but if the user asks to shoot himself in the foot that is fine
as well ;-).