From: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:45:23 GMT
Subject: Re: diff without num-stat
Message-ID: <19409.63699.647720.327239@winooski.ccs.neu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <7vaasuvz6r.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Apr 23, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org> writes:
> 
> > 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'.
> 
> I think you have it somewhat backwards.
> 
> Being the same as normal diffstat output that people are familiar with,
> the output makes it "an easy-to-glance-over summary of changes" whereever
> it is used, be it in a notification e-mail or from interactive command
> output.

(That's true only if the intended audience of these notifications are
people who are familiar with diffstat output.)

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