File finder: git diff links (Ignore a/ and b/ prefix)

[DragonDev1906]

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Describe the feature

I often use git diff in the terminal (outside of Zed), notice a small mistake (usually a dbg!(...), println!(...), similar or code I've commented out but not deleted) and need to go back to Zed and jump to this file.

When copying the file path from the terminal (double click to select the entire path) it includes the a/ or b/: a/path/to/my/file.rs. Unfortunately this means that you have to manually remove the a/ or b/ prefix for Zed to find the file.

Although this is not an issue from/with/by Zed, it would be amazing if the file finder would recognize this pattern/prefix and remove the a/ and b/ prefix automatically.

--- a/path/to/my/file.rs
+++ b/path/to/my/file.rs

That way the following three would yield identical results:

path/to/my/file.rs
a/path/to/my/file.rs
b/path/to/my/file.rs

I can only see two downsides to this:

• A tiny amount of additional complexity in the file finder, which now has to strip the prefix in addition to splitting the file name from the line number (a one-liner)
• A few queries may be less accurate, for example someone using a/part_of_filename would now list everything with part_of_filename instead of only part_of_filename that are in a folder with the letter a.

Overall, I think the first downside is small enough and the second downside is negligible.

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[watsoncj]

The bits to ignore the a/ and b/ prefix is available in #17446.

Maybe a stretch goal, but it would great to pull the location from the diff and jump the buffer to the appropriate location.

Example:

diff --git a/crates/terminal_view/src/terminal_view.rs b/crates/terminal_view/src/terminal_view.rs
index 8fc235523e..1410d203ca 100644
--- a/crates/terminal_view/src/terminal_view.rs
+++ b/crates/terminal_view/src/terminal_view.rs
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ const REGEX_SPECIAL_CHARS: &[char] = &[