Ditto. I frequently generate patches for other systems (primarily svn) and they require diffs w/o perfixes. Seemed like there should be a way to enable this option in gitconfig so users don't need to type --no-prefix w every diff invocation or use an alias (aliasing diff to diff --no-prefix in gitconfig doesn't work and wouldn't be a good idea anyway). Thanks, Eli On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 03:34, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> ... do you have any other >>> thoughts on adding a <path> extended header for non-renames and >>> non-copies? >> >> Other than "Why do we even need it?", no. We actually have been careful >> when designing the output format to make sure that necessary information >> appears. >> >> See also this thread: >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/3990/focus=4002 >> >> I wasn't too opposed to having a separate "Index: " line (or Anton's >> "name") like CVS does, but the conclusion of the thread was that it is not >> necessary. >> > > Thanks for the pointer. The discussion revolves around technical > arguments and the conclusion that this extra information is not > necessary is reasonable. My intention for this information comes only > from the usability and convenience side: I want a path without any > prefix which I can select in the terminal and use this to open the > file. Thats why it is only an option for the UI interface. > > Bert > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html