Show better image diff on git

Today I learned how to improve my git diff with images. For context check this TIL first.

I gave a step further on my git config to allow a better diff of my images using imagemagick compare features.

git config --global diff.image.textconv 'imgcat'
git config --global diff.image.command 'imgdiff'

So textconv will be used by git show commands and it's using iTerm2 imgcat.

And command will be used by git diff command and it uses my new shell script imgdiff added to my PATH:

#!/bin/bash

if [[ -f "$1" ]] && [[ -f "$2" ]]; then
  compare "$2" "$1" png:- | montage -geometry +4+4 "$2" - "$1" png:- | imgcat
else
  if [[ -f "$1" ]]; then
    echo "+ Image Added"
    imgcat "$1"
  else
    echo "- Image Removed"
    imgcat "$2"
  fi
fi

exit 0

With that I can have a diff like that:

So previous image to the left, new to the right and imagemagick comparison in the middle.

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