Neat, but I don’t like how it highlight the entire like if I change just one character on that line.

Maybe there’s a setting I’m missing, but I really like diff-so-fancy for legibility of changed lines.

For example if I’ve got like these changes:

--- a	2026-06-01 14:36:20.699016620 -0400
+++ b	2026-06-01 14:36:21.842027381 -0400
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 foo
 bar
-baz
+bazz
 
 foo
-bar
 baz
 
-foo
+bar
 bar
 baz

difft shows me:

but diff-so-fancy shows me:

Imho it’s easier to read the pertinent info in the latter, where you’ve got that attractive word diffing on changed lines.

I do like the conditional side-by-side and unified diffing, though. That’s huge.

Updated OP with what I came up with. I wasn’t able to make use of $GIT_REFLOG_ACTION – for some reason it was blank in every case, but reading the first line of the existing commit message, if it exists, does the trick.

I do foresee a potential problem if you’re doing like an interactive rebase for example, and you go to edit a commit message that starts like the default "Revert " style–that could be surprising… Maybe some other cases I haven’t thought of too, but yeah, works for me. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

Thanks that is a great start, and even better gives me an excuse to faff about with scripting. I’ll share what I come up with!

EDIT Oh interesting, in my debugging I found out that if you revert a revert now (git version 2.43.0) that the subject line reads “Reapply” instead of “Revert “Revert “…”””

Do you… like it?

And yeah I made an account just to ask this question. Hello! Nice looking server you’ve got here. 🖐