Filter /compare by path

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GitHub's ${repo}/compare/${ref1}...${ref2} page is extremely useful. I find it far nicer to read than git diff ${ref1}...${ref2}. However, it is missing one critical feature, the ability to filter the commits by file path.

On the command line I can run git diff ${ref1}...${ref2} -- ${path} to generate a diff showing changes under the given path only (as opposed to changes in the entire repository). This is great for Monorepos since we don't care about what the changes in the other projects are in a lot of cases.

Unfortunately, GitHub's /compare page does not support filtering by path. That means when there a lot of changes in the other projects it gets very hard to read the comparison.

I like to link to comparisons a lot, so it would be great if there was a query parameter like ?path=/path/to/dir which would apply the filter.

It seems like would not be hard to add this feature, and the payoff would be huge.

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