Subject: Re: Filenames and prefixes in extended diffs

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:09:07 -0800

Nanako Shiraishi <[email-masked]> writes:

> Quoting Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
>
>> The output from "git diff --no-index" is an exception to the above rule.
>> It is primarily for people who have unmanaged contents and want to use
>> features of the git diff engine that are not found in other people's diff
>> implementations (e.g. wordwise colored diff),...
>
> Is it possible to give --no-index option to "git grep", please?

Surely.  And "grep" is much easier to do than "diff".  Will send a patch
perhaps during my lunch break.