symling diff driver (Was: Re: git diff: add option for omitting the contents of deletes)

Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 28.02.2011 13:17:

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 08:31:55AM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:

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Reminds me of my failed attempt to make the diff output for symlinks
more human-friendly. The latter can be solved with textconv, though.

I am still carrying around my "symlinks as a special class of diff"
patches if you are interested:

  https://github.com/peff/git/tree/jk/userdiff-symlinks

This is marvelous (except for s/perl -pe/sed -e/, of course).

Is there anything left to do to get this in pu? (The reference to
"previous patch" may need to be more explicit.)

Michael