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Subject: Re: Creating diffs
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Rocco Rutte wrote:

> However, when I do:
> 
>    $ git diff source:file dest:file
> 
> I get:
> 
>    --- a/source:file
>    +++ b/source:file
> 
> But I'd like to drop the branchname. Can I do that without filtering 
> everything through sed(1)?

If I remember correctly there were two patches which solved it differently:
one gave

   --- a/source:file
   +++ b/dest:file

second (and I guess it is better solution)

   --- a/file
   +++ b/file

Unfortunately they seem unapplied...

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Jakub Narebski
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