Re: [PATCH] diff: add --no-indicators option
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> Le 19 déc. 2025 à 07:27, Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Hi Collin!
>
> Surely, "git diff --output-indicator-old=' ' --output-indicator-new=' '"
> exists for a reason, to allow users to customize the workflow for
> themselves. So this is adding a better short-hand instead of that, which
> feels a bit clunky. Sed workaround would likely work, but nicer to have it
> native inside git instead?
>
> I use Git from the CLI 99.99% of the time, and find myself often copy-
> pasting to recover some code from and old commit, so then this helps to
> save me pasting in and the manually removing the +/- signs. Not a huge
> deal, but makes the awesome Git CLI even better.
>
> Harald
I wondered why you’d be copying diffs without leading indicators; with that answered, perhaps you should try “git restore”? One benefit of version control is easily restoring other versions.
Ben Knoble <ben.knoble@gmail.com>