Re: [RFC] best way to show diff of commit

>   There is specific script I run in my vim with git, that tries to show
> from the 'status' git commit shows in the buffer which list of files has
> changed, and builds a diff from it quite clumsily[0].
> 
>   I wonder how hard it would be for git commit to "stash" the current
> commit being sent somewhere editors would be able to have a look at (an
> alternate index is probably fine). Note that maybe I'm stupid and
> overlooked that such a thing already exists.  I'd like to have it in two
> flavors: normal and amend mode. normal mode would show what the
> resulting commit diff looks like, and the amend mode only shows the
> incrementall diff the amend adds to the previous commit.
> 
>   My question is: what do you think is the best way to do that, and
> where ?