Scott Johnson wrote: > I've attached a pre and post with the complete file that is showing this > problem. I hope you'll be able to reproduce the issue with this. I can't reproduce. I did this: $ ls -l total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 thomas users 2128 2010-12-15 20:42 post.html -rw-r--r-- 1 thomas users 2354 2010-12-15 20:42 pre.html $ echo '*.html diff=html' >.gitattributes $ git diff --no-index pre.html post.html diff --git 1/pre.html 2/post.html [...] - <li class="ydn-patterns"><em></em><a href="#">ydn-patterns</a></li> - <li class="ydn-mail"><em></em><a href="#">ydn-mail</a></li> - <li class="yws-maps"><em></em><a href="#">yws-maps</a></li> - <li class="ydn-delicious"><em></em><a href="#">ydn-delicious</a></li> - <li class="yws-flickr"><em></em><a href="#">yws-flickr</a></li> - <li class="yws-events"><em></em><a href="#">yws-events</a></li> + <li><em></em><a href="#">ydn-patterns</a></li> + <li><em></em><a href="#">ydn-mail</a></li> + <li><em></em><a href="#">yws-maps</a></li> + <li><em></em><a href="#">ydn-delicious</a></li> + <li><em></em><a href="#">yws-flickr</a></li> + <li><em></em><a href="#">yws-events</a></li> </ul> </div><!-- wrap --> </div><!-- folder_list --> $ git diff --word-diff --no-index pre.html post.html diff --git 1/pre.html 2/post.html [...] <li[-class="ydn-patterns"-]><em></em><a href="#">ydn-patterns</a></li> <li[-class="ydn-mail"-]><em></em><a href="#">ydn-mail</a></li> <li[-class="yws-maps"-]><em></em><a href="#">yws-maps</a></li> <li[-class="ydn-delicious"-]><em></em><a href="#">ydn-delicious</a></li> <li[-class="yws-flickr"-]><em></em><a href="#">yws-flickr</a></li> <li[-class="yws-events"-]><em></em><a href="#">yws-events</a></li> </ul> </div><!-- wrap --> </div><!-- folder_list --> That's running bleeding-edge git, like I always do, but the userdiff stuff hasn't changed in ages. What does git config diff.html.wordregex say on your system? -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html