This is absolutely fantastic tool! It works out of the box as expected, unlike some perl mumbo-jumbo.
Can it please be made a drop-in replacement for diff? There're 2 usecases:
diff-highlight -u file1 file2 should popen diff and highlight the output.
diff -u file1 file | diff-highlight should return the same exit code as diff itself (which means that diff-highlight should exit with 0 if diff was empty, and 1 otherwise).