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Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com> writes:

> My only concern is that it seems this has been broken for a while
> (couldn't bisect, but AFAIK the first implementation did filter like
> this one does), so some people might be expecting the broken
> behaviour.

I do not think it is likely.

It only shows changes to unmerged paths outside the current
directory, which does not sound all that useful.