The git diff command prints changes to stdout, normally to the terminal screen.

Set up a visual diff and merge program for use with git difftool and git mergetool.

Changes in binary files do not show well in common diff tools and can take a long time for them to compute visual diffs.

This is easily avoided using the -d option: git difftool -d

This shows all changed files in the diff program, and you can view and skip files there as appropriate.

Linux example

stackoverflow/.../setting-up-and-using-meld-as-your-git-difftool-and-mergetool

Linux meld

gedit ~/.gitconfig →