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gslepak | on: Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust
Is there a way to use it with git without having to change your global git config? I.e. `git diff | omnidiff` or something?

You can do this with delta: `git diff | delta --side-by-side`

forgotpwd16 | parent | next
https://github.com/ivankovic/omnidiff#usage

  OmniDiff also works directly with git diff and git log -p, through GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF. This path needs no difftool config:

    GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF=omnidiff git diff
nh2 | parent
Piping the output of `git diff` might withhold information from the tool that it needs for its feature set, while `delta` is just a different way to display any diff output.