Re: [BUG?] Patches created with 'diff.noprefix=true' don't 'git apply'.

> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Nathan Collins <nathan.collins@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> For (2), the solution may be to add a separate
>>> 'diff.add-clickable-paths' option (probably there is a better name?
>>> 'diff.add-copyable-paths'? ...),...
>>> ...
>>> Concretely, if 'diff.add-clickable-paths' is set, then instead of e.g.
>>>
>>>   diff --git a/src/Data/Function/Decorator/Memoizer/Unsafe.hs
>>> b/src/Data/Function/Decorator/Memoizer
>>>   index 3ef17da..a0586d3 100644
>>>   --- a/src/Data/Function/Decorator/Memoizer/Unsafe.hs
>>>   +++ b/src/Data/Function/Decorator/Memoizer/Unsafe.hs
>>
>> If you do something along that line, perhaps
>>
>>         Index: src/Data/Function/Decorator/Memoizer/Unsafe.hs
>>         diff --git a/src/Data/Function/Decorator/Memoizer/Unsafe.hs ...
>>         index 3ef17da..a0586d3 100644
>>         --- a/src/Data/Function/Decorator/Memoizer/Unsafe.hs
>>         +++ b/src/Data/Function/Decorator/Memoizer/Unsafe.hs
>>
>> to imitate what "cvs diff" does may be more familar to people.
>>
>> What would you propose to make clickable in a renaming diff, though?
>
> Your 'Index' header looks good, and I would expect a renaming diff to
> have something like
>
>   Index: foo -> bar
>
> as in 'git status', but I just realized that a "clickable paths"
> option already exists in some sense! There is a '--patch-with-raw'
> option (which is "short" for '--patch' and '--raw', hahaha) which
> inserts clickable file names in the patch, above each diff.