When viewing diff in a subdirectory paths aren't relative

[ghost]

When I'm viewing a diff with "git diff ." while beeing in a subdirectory of a project the paths shows still point to the root of the project, which is a bit annoying since I cannot just select and copy the paths to a new git command as i'd usually do.

Not sure if this can be fixed, but perhaps by taking the current working directory into account?

[scottchiefbaker]

git by default shows absolute paths (from the base of the repo). If you pass the --relative flag you will get what you want. You can put this in your ~/.gitconfig

[diff]
    relative = true

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[ghost]

Thanks!