Re: diff without num-stat

From: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
Date: Apr 23, 2010, 17:14 UTC
Message-ID: <19409.54647.62163.893635@winooski.ccs.neu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4BD156F8.5090307@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Apr 23, Michael J Gruber wrote:

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> Eli Barzilay venit, vidit, dixit 22.04.2010 21:02:
> > `git diff' has a `--numstat' flag, but is there any way to *avoid* the
> > numstat?  (I'm using `--stat' but want to void the summary line, and
> > I'd like to avoid piping it to `head'.)
> 
> So, what DO you want?
> [...]
> where "summary line" is something like
> 
> 5 files changed, 5974 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

An option that avoids that summary line.

On Apr 23, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 
> Summary is "create mode ..." etc. and you can already enable/disable it.

Right -- I'm asking about the above numstat summary line, which seems to always be included with `--stat'.

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> That "N files +M/-N lines in total" is _not_ a summary; it is an
> integral part of ascii-graphical --stat output, which is supposed to
> produce output like "git diff -p | diffstat".  We won't split it out
> of --stat without a very good reason, there doesn't seem to be an
> option to "diffstat" for such a thing, so...

Well, the reason is to have an easy-to-glance-over summary of changes for push notification emails. I didn't realize that the intention of --stat was to be completely compatible with `diffstat'.

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