On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 4:36 PM George King <george.w.k...@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
