On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 6:01 AM, Vanderhoof, Tzadik <tzadik.vanderh...@optum360.com> wrote: > The output of git-diff includes lines beginning with "+" and "-" to indicate > added and deleted lines. A somewhat common task (at least for me) is to want > to copy output from a "diff" (usually the deleted lines) and paste it back > into my code. > > This is quite inconvenient because of the leading "+" and "-" characters. I > know there are shell and IDE / editor workarounds but it would be nice if > there was a switch to git-diff to make it leave out those characters, > especially since "--color" kind of makes those leading characters obsolete.
Color wouldn't show you new/old empty lines though (unless you use different background color, but I doubt that looks readable). > Would it make sense to develop such a switch or has there been work on that > already? I face this "problem" every day, but most editors nowadays have block-based editing that would allow you to remove a column of "+/-" easily. At least it has not bothered me to think of improving it. -- Duy
