Re: [PATCH] Teach diff machinery to display other prefixes than "a/" and "b/"

Pascal Obry [off-list ref] writes:

Johannes Schindelin a écrit :

quoted

With the new option "--prefix=<prefix1>[:<prefix2>]" you can change
the shown prefix, or suppress it (by specifying the empty string).

Why not ? But do you have a motivation for this change ? I mean why
would you want to use a completely different prefix ?

It can make sense when you send the patch to someone who might not
know the context in which you wrote the patch, and who's not using
git. Then

--- your-version/foo.c
+++ my-version/foo.c

can be more expressive than a/ and b/. Some people like to have orig/
and mod/ also.

I can live without --prefix=... option, but doing it general at once
is a good idea, since adding this backward-compatibly on top of your
patch would mean having several redundant options.

-- 
Matthieu