From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:12:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add --filedirstat diff option
Message-ID: <20080903001254.GA12263@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v3akigl1g.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 04:55:39PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> "filedirstat" is simply too long to type, and it has a certain "Huh?"
> factor --- is it about file, or is it about directory?

I had the same thought when I saw the original patch...

> 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 I thought of --dirstat-byfile. So maybe:

  --dirstat=byfile

and

  --dirstat=byline

defaulting to byline (or by-line if preferred).

-Peff