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

> From: Duy Nguyen [mailto:pclouds@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 6:54 AM
> To: Vanderhoof, Tzadik
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> 
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 6:01 AM, Vanderhoof, Tzadik
> <tzadik.vanderhoof@optum360.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Color wouldn't show you new/old empty lines though (unless you use
> different background color, but I doubt that looks readable).
> 
> > Would it make sense to develop such a switch or has there been work on
> that already?
> 
> I face this "problem" every day, but most editors nowadays have block-
> based editing that would allow you to remove a column of "+/-"
> easily. At least it has not bothered me to think of improving it.