From: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:00:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make -p --stat and --stat -p behave like --patch-with-stat
Message-ID: <20060623150049.9d147262.tihirvon@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vr71hkofg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

> The diff output has four parts, each of which can independently
> be enabled.  When no options are specified on the command line,
> each command has its own default but in general the low-level
> commands default to raw output only, and the higher-level ones
> default to patch output only.
> 
> The four parts are controlled with a bit each, and are output in
> the fixed order (iow the order of the options given from the
> command line does not matter): raw, stat, summary and patch.
> 
> When --name-only or --name-status is specified, that would be
> the only thing that is output (iow the above four parts would
> not be shown, just names optionally with the status are shown).
> 
> The four switches are: --raw, --stat, --summary and --patch.
> Existing flags are supported as obvious shorthands to turn on
> the corresponding bits:
> 
> 	-p, -u			--patch
>         --patch-with-raw	--raw --patch
>         --patch-with-stat	--stat --patch
> 
> Anybody interested in doing a patch?

I'll try. It shouldn't be too hard.

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