From: Jeff King Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:20:30 GMT Subject: Re: Why a _full_ diff? (was: [PATCH] Char: serial167, cleanup (fwd)) Message-ID: <20070212092028.GB12605@coredump.intra.peff.net> In-Reply-To: On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:39:46AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > I received the email below, showing a _full_ (i.e. every single line) diff > between the old and the new version: Hmm. I'm not sure what is generating this, but the diffstat in the email is wrong (anybody know where the mailing list feeder script lives?). > | diff --git a/drivers/char/serial167.c b/drivers/char/serial167.c > | dissimilarity index 67% > | index af50d32..5fd314a 100644 > | --- a/drivers/char/serial167.c > | +++ b/drivers/char/serial167.c > | @@ -1,2824 +1,2792 @@ > | -/* > | - * linux/drivers/char/serial167.c > | - * This may or may not be related to the diffstat issue; you can get a similar effect by asking for a lot of context. For example: git show --unified=150 44bafd > | anakin$ git show 44bafdf37b30234671d4e2fb595dea4c3717d089 | diffstat > | serial167.c | 3322 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------- > | 1 file changed, 1645 insertions(+), 1677 deletions(-) This is also what git produces, using git show --stat 44bafd I think there is probably some erroneous magic going on in whatever script generates the mail. -Peff