Re: Git diff --no-index --no-prefix output loses leading slash in paths

[George King <george.w.king@gmail.com>]

This is a feature request; sorry for the confusion. My guess is that it's a corner case that was not considered due to the default prefixing.


> On Jun 18, 2018, at 10:59 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 4:36 PM George King <george.w.king@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> As of 2.17.1, `git diff --no-index --no-prefix relative/path /absolute/path` produces the following:
> 
> I checked as far back as v1.4.0 and git behaved the same way too. What
> version did it work for you? Or is this not a regression, rather a
> feature request?
> 
>> diff --git relative/path absolute/path
>> index XXXXXXX..YYYYYYY ZZZZZZ
>> --- relative/path
>> +++ absolute/path
>> 
>> The leading slash on `absolute/path` is lost. This is unfortunate; my use case is a diff highlighter that parses and reformats paths so that code editors can autodetect them and link to the files.
>> 
>> Would the maintainers please consider fixing the output to preserve absolute paths?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> George King
>> 
> -- 
> Duy