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Git diff --no-index --no-prefix output loses leading slash in paths

Subject: Git diff --no-index --no-prefix output loses leading slash in paths

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3 messages between Jun 18, 2018 and Jun 18, 2018.

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George King· Jun 18, 2018, 14:33 UTC · lore

As of 2.17.1, `git diff --no-index --no-prefix relative/path /absolute/path` produces the following:

diff --git relative/path absolute/path
index XXXXXXX..YYYYYYY ZZZZZZ
--- relative/path
+++ absolute/path

The leading slash on `absolute/path` is lost. This is unfortunate; my use case is a diff highlighter that parses and reformats paths so that code editors can autodetect them and link to the files. 

Would the maintainers please consider fixing the output to preserve absolute paths?

Thank you,
George King

Duy Nguyen· Jun 18, 2018, 14:59 UTC · re: George King · lore

Re: Git diff --no-index --no-prefix output loses leading slash in paths

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 4:36 PM George King <george.w.king@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> As of 2.17.1, `git diff --no-index --no-prefix relative/path /absolute/path` produces the following:

I checked as far back as v1.4.0 and git behaved the same way too. What version did it work for you? Or is this not a regression, rather a feature request?

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> diff --git relative/path absolute/path
> index XXXXXXX..YYYYYYY ZZZZZZ
> --- relative/path
> +++ absolute/path
>
> The leading slash on `absolute/path` is lost. This is unfortunate; my use case is a diff highlighter that parses and reformats paths so that code editors can autodetect them and link to the files.
>
> Would the maintainers please consider fixing the output to preserve absolute paths?
>
> Thank you,
> George King
>

-- 
Duy

George King· Jun 18, 2018, 15:01 UTC · re: Duy Nguyen · lore

Re: Git diff --no-index --no-prefix output loses leading slash in paths

This is a feature request; sorry for the confusion. My guess is that it's a corner case that was not considered due to the default prefixing.

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> On Jun 18, 2018, at 10:59 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 4:36 PM George King <george.w.king@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> As of 2.17.1, `git diff --no-index --no-prefix relative/path /absolute/path` produces the following:
> 
> I checked as far back as v1.4.0 and git behaved the same way too. What
> version did it work for you? Or is this not a regression, rather a
> feature request?
> 
>> diff --git relative/path absolute/path
>> index XXXXXXX..YYYYYYY ZZZZZZ
>> --- relative/path
>> +++ absolute/path
>> 
>> The leading slash on `absolute/path` is lost. This is unfortunate; my use case is a diff highlighter that parses and reformats paths so that code editors can autodetect them and link to the files.
>> 
>> Would the maintainers please consider fixing the output to preserve absolute paths?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> George King
>> 
> -- 
> Duy