Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 04/25] diff.c: introduce emit_diff_symbol

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:07:11 -0700

Stefan Beller <[email-masked]> writes:

>     diff --git a/new.txt b/new.txt
>     index fa69b07..412428c 100644
>     Binary files a/new.txt and b/new.txt differ
>
>   could be buffered as
>      DIFF_SYMBOL_DIFF_START + new.txt
>      DIFF_SYMBOL_INDEX_MODE + fa69b07 412428c "non-executable" flag
>      DIFF_SYMBOL_BINARY_FILES + new.txt

Hopefully this is an oversimplified example and I'd assume that you
will do the right thing when showing a renamed filepair by allowing
both old and new paths that could be different?