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+# Easier Code reviews with Git Colored Move Diffs
+
+Code reviews can be very time-consuming. Especially if you are reviewing a lot of code changes. Often, code changes are simple refactorings, such as extracting code into methods/functions or moving code around. These changes are more or less irrelevant for the review, since they usually don’t change the behavior of the code. As a reviewer, one still wants to make sure that code hasn’t been changed during the code move.
+
+This is where git colored move diffs come into play. They make it easier to detect and display code moves in a different color than other code changes.
+
+### How to use git colored move diffs on demand
+
+Colored Move Diffs work with all git commends that display diffs, such as `git diff`, `git show`, `git log -p`, etc.
+
+```bash
+git diff --color-moved
+git show --color-moved HEAD
+git log --color-moved -p
+```
+
+You can also set different color schemes for moved code, I prefer the `dimmed-zebra` color profile since it greys out moved code:
+
+```bash
+git diff --color-moved=dimmed-zebra
+```
+
+There is also an option to ignore whitespace changes in moved code:
+
+```bash
+git diff --color-moved=dimmed-zebra --color-moved-ws=ignore-all-space
+```
+
+### How to enable git colored move diffs
+
+To globally configure git to use colored moves in git diffs, run the following commands:
+
+```
+git config --global diff.colorMoved dimmed-zebra # enables colored moved diffs with the dimmed-zebra color profile
+git config --global diff.color-moved-ws ignore-all-space # ignores whitespace changes in moved code
+```