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 <pclo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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
