* Git diff --no-index --no-prefix output loses leading slash in paths
@ 2018-06-18 14:33 George King
2018-06-18 14:59 ` Duy Nguyen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: George King @ 2018-06-18 14:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
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
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* Re: Git diff --no-index --no-prefix output loses leading slash in paths
2018-06-18 14:33 Git diff --no-index --no-prefix output loses leading slash in paths George King
@ 2018-06-18 14:59 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-06-18 15:01 ` George King
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Duy Nguyen @ 2018-06-18 14:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: george.w.king; +Cc: Git Mailing List
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
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* Re: Git diff --no-index --no-prefix output loses leading slash in paths
2018-06-18 14:59 ` Duy Nguyen
@ 2018-06-18 15:01 ` George King
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: George King @ 2018-06-18 15:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Duy Nguyen; +Cc: Git Mailing List
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.
> 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
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