From: Noam Postavsky Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 01:55:29 GMT Subject: [BUG] git diff --(src|dst)-prefix=// causes spurious "(new|deleted) file mode" Message-ID: % git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/npostavs/tmp/scratch/.git/ % echo foo > x % git add x % git commit -m x [master (root-commit) 41be1f2] x 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 x % echo bar > x % git diff | head -3 diff --git i/x w/x index 257cc56..5716ca5 100644 --- i/x % git diff --dst-prefix=// | head -3 diff --git i/x //x deleted file mode 100644 index 257cc56..5716ca5 100644 % git diff --src-prefix=// | head -3 diff --git //x w/x new file mode 100644 index 257cc56..5716ca5 100644 % git diff --src-prefix=// --dst-prefix=// | head -3 diff --git //x //x new file mode 100644 index 257cc56..5716ca5 100644 % git --version git version 1.9.2 Background: trying to find a prefix that can't show up in file names in order to make parsing easier. https://github.com/magit/magit/pull/1379 https://github.com/magit/magit/pull/1383