From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 05:21:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Clarifying behavior of diff --stat
Message-ID: <20170609052121.f5fudcq6yz5d3r56@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAJZjrdUHm2JAGsjurcGxONQomAtvV_GMgzqb0pPEovHSySd=KA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 07:10:00AM -0400, Samuel Lijin wrote:

> I noticed when answering a StackOverflow question that apparently
> --stat modifies the raw diff itself, instead of just adding a diffstat
> to the output. In the linux kernel:

Sort of. Using "--stat" implies "-r", since it only deals with the
actual blobs and would have nothing to show for tree entries.

And since recursive-ness is global to the whole diff, not just one
output format, the --raw output becomes recursive, too.

> Is this intentional? And is there a way to generate a raw version of
> the extended stat without using --stat?

Try "git diff-tree --raw -r".

-Peff