new git-diff switch to eliminate leading "+" and "-" characters

The output of git-diff includes lines beginning with "+" and "-" to indicate added and deleted lines.  A somewhat common task (at least for me) is to want to copy output from a "diff" (usually the deleted lines) and paste it back into my code.

This is quite inconvenient because of the leading "+" and "-" characters.  I know there are shell and IDE / editor workarounds but it would be nice if there was a switch to git-diff to make it leave out those characters, especially since "--color" kind of makes those leading characters obsolete.

Would it make sense to develop such a switch or has there been work on that already? ______________________________ Tzadik Vanderhoof | Optum360 Sr Software Engineer, NLP Innovation www.optum360.com

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