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Re: diffstat wierdness with 'git format-patch' output

From
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date
Feb 18, 2006, 00:34 UTC
Message-ID
<20060218003403.GA12278@kroah.com>
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On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:10:18PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
> 
> > Hm, git-send-email doesn't see this, so it doesn't get sent out if you
> > use that tool.
> 
> And people are very likely to remove it by hand.
> 
> Another possibility would be to use "git apply --numstat" and
> add numbers up in your script, but that would not give you a
> nice graph output either X-<.
> 
> I'd say if you really care we should just remove those two
> lines, and remember I am _very_ receptive from such suggestion
> from prominent kernel people.

Hm, in thinking about this some more, I realized that it only requires me to change my script to generate the emails for Linus to pull from a tiny bit, making this whole thing not a bit deal at all.

Thanks a lot for being so receptive, if I have further problems with it, I'll let you know.

greg k-h
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  4. Greg KHFeb 14, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2006
  6. Greg KHFeb 14, 2006
  7. Greg KHFeb 14, 2006
  8. Greg KHFeb 14, 2006
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 14, 2006
  10. Greg KHFeb 18, 2006
  11. Fredrik KuivinenFeb 14, 2006

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