Re: [PATCH] Add --filedirstat diff option

> realized that I forgot to mention one thing.
> 
> The name.
> 
> "filedirstat" is simply too long to type, and it has a certain "Huh?"
> factor --- is it about file, or is it about directory?
> 
> This option essentially is just the dirstat but with different logic to
> compute how big the damage is.  Conceptually, the original one gives one
> "damage point" to each added or deleted line.
> 
>         $ git show --dirstat=<one-point-per-line>
> 
> and yours awards one point to each file, whatever the size of the damage
> is.
> 
>         $ git show --dirstat=<one-point-per-file>
> 
> I cannot come up with a short-and-sweet name for one-point-per-X offhand,
> but expressing this variant as an option to --dirstat will leave the door
> open for other people to come up with different system to award damage
> points.  Perhaps
> 
> 	$ git show --dirstat=exclude-typofixes
> 
> might even be not just interesting but useful ;-)