Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > "Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> > writes: > >> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> >> >> When parsing the diffs, `range-diff` expects to see the prefixes `a/` >> and `b/` in the diff headers. > > If so, passing src/dst prefix as command line option is a much > better solution, I think. diff.noprefix may not stay to be (or it > may already not to be) the only thing how the prefix gets chosen. That is, "--src-prefix=a/ --dst-prefix=b/", so that configuration variables yet to be invented for setting prefixes different from a/ and b/ can also be overridden, not just diff.noprefix (ancient Git used l/ and k/ as src and dst prefix, IIRC).
