Piotr Krukowiecki [off-list ref] writes:
I think I even suspected this might have something to do with the merge
conflict and tried to make git-diff show me exact change between working
tree and index/HEAD (ignoring the merge).
Doesn't "git diff HEAD" show the difference between HEAD and working tree
without the higher stages for the path getting in the way?
The difference between the index and the working tree is "git diff" which
is condensed. I think you can force it to uncondense it by giving "-c"
option, but I haven't tried (didn't find a need/use for it for a long
time).