Re: Undocumented git-diff syntax

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> Another thought: if we can already compare arbitrary blobs, maybe it would not be so hard to
> extend it to take arbitrary contents that are not stored as blobs yet ?  (a quick hack would be to
> insert an object for them, but that does not look too clean...).  As a use-case, I'm often found generating diffs from within custom scripts, from contents derived from a git repo, but can't use all the bells and whistles (--color, --color-words, etc), just because I have to use plain diff;
> that makes the output of those scripts very inconsistent with native git commands.