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This is nice but to be honest I'm surprised it's not a feature already built into git. It seems strange that for a command line tool the fastest way to interact with files is to use the mouse to double click and then right click . Maybe you could submit a patch to git itself?

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Are you sure you're using your shell with full fluency? I can identify a file in a nontrivial source tree with the shell far faster than a mouse, and the advantage only opens up if I start specifying more than one file.

At the beginning I implemented it in git itself, in C, but decided that writing it as a plugin as opposed to as a builtin is better as it is the least intrusive method (read: least amount of work).

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